JOURNEYMAN BEEKEEPING ACTUAL EXAM
SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Set of glands responsible for releasing alarm pheromone - ✔✔mandibular, sting and
Koschevnikov glands
✔✔eclose - ✔✔emerge as an adult from the pupa or as a larva from the egg.
✔✔Vitellogenin - ✔✔Important storage protein found in nurse bees and winter bees
✔✔Where is the antenna cleaner located? - ✔✔on the basitarsus of the forelegs
✔✔What is the difference between queen (royal) jelly and worker jelly? Choose the best
response. - ✔✔worker jelly has more fructose, queen jelly has more glucose
✔✔What two glands produce the fluids lavishly fed to worker bee larvae? -
✔✔hypopharyngeal (clear) and mandibular (milky)
✔✔When are the wax glands most developed? - ✔✔12-16 days after emergence
(eclosing)
✔✔polariscope - ✔✔crystals, dust, bubbles, foam, bits of wax, soot from the smoker,
and fibers from straining honey with cheesecloth
✔✔Ocelli - ✔✔3 simple eyes that detect light and darkness
✔✔sclerites - ✔✔Armor plates of the honeybee
✔✔Proventriculus - ✔✔opens/closes the honey stomach
✔✔Tergites - ✔✔top plates of the abdomen
, ✔✔sternites - ✔✔Bottom abdominal plates
✔✔Koschevnikov gland - ✔✔produces an alarm pheromone, released when bees sting
✔✔Dufor's Glands - ✔✔released in vaginal canal onto eggs
✔✔Releaser pheromones vs primer pheromones - ✔✔Releaser pheremones are fast
acting. Primer pheromones are slow and long term.
✔✔Waggle dance - ✔✔food over 88 yards. distance, direction, smell/taste, profitability.
✔✔Sickle dance - ✔✔food is 10 to 30m (11 to 33 yards)
✔✔Round dance - ✔✔Food is within 88 years (80m).
✔✔breaking dance - ✔✔Signal to leave hive. Also called whirring. Zigzagging run with
whirring sound with wings.
✔✔Age of bees that join swarm. - ✔✔Bees of all ages. But majority are 4 to 23 days old.
✔✔Grooming dance - ✔✔Recruiting assistance for grooming. Bee grabs another and
shakes her.
✔✔Race of bees notorious for drifting - ✔✔Italian
✔✔After a few weeks, what percentage of laying workers can produce eggs - ✔✔10%
✔✔How long after queen is removed do bees notice? - ✔✔15-30 minutes
✔✔Inefficient supercedure - ✔✔When old queen dies before new virgin emerges
✔✔Efficient supercedure - ✔✔When theres is 2 queens. Mother survives until daughter
emerges.
✔✔Eyelet - ✔✔protect your end bars from being gouged by frame wire
✔✔Spur wire embedder - ✔✔Used to embed wire into your wax foundation
✔✔Frame wire crimper - ✔✔Used to crimp and tighten your foundation wire prior to
embedding it in your frames.
✔✔How many hives can you sell if youre going out of business? without a permit -
✔✔Less than 50 beehives
SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Set of glands responsible for releasing alarm pheromone - ✔✔mandibular, sting and
Koschevnikov glands
✔✔eclose - ✔✔emerge as an adult from the pupa or as a larva from the egg.
✔✔Vitellogenin - ✔✔Important storage protein found in nurse bees and winter bees
✔✔Where is the antenna cleaner located? - ✔✔on the basitarsus of the forelegs
✔✔What is the difference between queen (royal) jelly and worker jelly? Choose the best
response. - ✔✔worker jelly has more fructose, queen jelly has more glucose
✔✔What two glands produce the fluids lavishly fed to worker bee larvae? -
✔✔hypopharyngeal (clear) and mandibular (milky)
✔✔When are the wax glands most developed? - ✔✔12-16 days after emergence
(eclosing)
✔✔polariscope - ✔✔crystals, dust, bubbles, foam, bits of wax, soot from the smoker,
and fibers from straining honey with cheesecloth
✔✔Ocelli - ✔✔3 simple eyes that detect light and darkness
✔✔sclerites - ✔✔Armor plates of the honeybee
✔✔Proventriculus - ✔✔opens/closes the honey stomach
✔✔Tergites - ✔✔top plates of the abdomen
, ✔✔sternites - ✔✔Bottom abdominal plates
✔✔Koschevnikov gland - ✔✔produces an alarm pheromone, released when bees sting
✔✔Dufor's Glands - ✔✔released in vaginal canal onto eggs
✔✔Releaser pheromones vs primer pheromones - ✔✔Releaser pheremones are fast
acting. Primer pheromones are slow and long term.
✔✔Waggle dance - ✔✔food over 88 yards. distance, direction, smell/taste, profitability.
✔✔Sickle dance - ✔✔food is 10 to 30m (11 to 33 yards)
✔✔Round dance - ✔✔Food is within 88 years (80m).
✔✔breaking dance - ✔✔Signal to leave hive. Also called whirring. Zigzagging run with
whirring sound with wings.
✔✔Age of bees that join swarm. - ✔✔Bees of all ages. But majority are 4 to 23 days old.
✔✔Grooming dance - ✔✔Recruiting assistance for grooming. Bee grabs another and
shakes her.
✔✔Race of bees notorious for drifting - ✔✔Italian
✔✔After a few weeks, what percentage of laying workers can produce eggs - ✔✔10%
✔✔How long after queen is removed do bees notice? - ✔✔15-30 minutes
✔✔Inefficient supercedure - ✔✔When old queen dies before new virgin emerges
✔✔Efficient supercedure - ✔✔When theres is 2 queens. Mother survives until daughter
emerges.
✔✔Eyelet - ✔✔protect your end bars from being gouged by frame wire
✔✔Spur wire embedder - ✔✔Used to embed wire into your wax foundation
✔✔Frame wire crimper - ✔✔Used to crimp and tighten your foundation wire prior to
embedding it in your frames.
✔✔How many hives can you sell if youre going out of business? without a permit -
✔✔Less than 50 beehives
