NC CERTIFIED BEEKEEPER EXAMS SCRIPT ALL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔tracheal mite - ✔✔is an internal parasite, Acarapis wood, of honey bees and tend to
attack young bees of 3 days old or less
Large numbers of bees crawling at the entrance of the hive, unable to fly
Disorientated bees
Bees holding their wings at unusual angles (called "K wing")
✔✔Small Hive Beetle - ✔✔At its adult stage, the small hive beetle is 5-7mm (.1967 -
.2756in) long and has antennae resembling the head of a golf club. When they enter the
hive, they are usually found toward the back along the bottom board and sometimes
along the frames and running along the inner cover. The females lay their eggs in the
protected nooks of the hive. Destroys the honey.
✔✔Langstrom - ✔✔Father of modern beekeeping
1837
bee space
✔✔types of honeybees - ✔✔German black bee Apis mellifera meillifera
Italian bee Apis mellifera lugista
Caucasian bee
Carniolan bee
Russian bee
✔✔Caste of honeybees - ✔✔3 Caste - Queen, Workers, Drones
✔✔Worker Bees - ✔✔Live about 6 weeks in summer and longer in winter
starts foraging at about 3 weeks
female bee
✔✔Drone Bees - ✔✔Hang out in the Drone congregating area
Barrel shaped body
, dies as soon as it mates with queen
male bees
lives all summer
✔✔Honeybee Head - ✔✔contains 2 compound eyes and 3 ocelli eyes, 2 antennae, the
tongue (proboscs), and mandibles
✔✔Honeybee Thorax - ✔✔center of locomotion
2 sets of wings (hindwing and forewing)
6 legs (pollen press)
✔✔Honeybee abdomen - ✔✔the stinger, wax glands and reproductive organs
✔✔Waggle Dance - ✔✔When a female bee returns from foraging and needs to share
the location with her coworkers, she performs a highly complex series of steps. This is
called the waggle dance.
Each step of the dance communicates an element of information about the location
being described. The length of the waggle indicates the distance from the hive. Every
75 milliseconds of the dance indicate approximately an additional 330 feet to the
location.
✔✔Cleansing FLight - ✔✔Done when the temperature is above 50 to eliminate waste
and to get out of the hive
✔✔Parts of a flower - ✔✔The anther contains pollen. Bees seek this out and, to attract
them, flowers place the anthers near the top. They're usually round or oblong in shape
and located on the top of the stamen. In conjunction with the filament, which produces
the pollen, the anther is considered the male part of the flower
The stigma is a portion of the female part of the flower. It's also near the top and is
where pollen germinates. It works as one part of the pistil to create a mature and
fertilized ovary, known as a fruit. By this definition a tomato is a fruit, even though we
tend to think of it as a vegetable.
Petal
The petals are the most easily recognizable part of the flower. They are what our eyes
see and often identifiable by the color. The shape and color of flower petals serve to
attract bees and aid or hinder their efforts to extract pollen and nectar.
✔✔ American Foul Brood - ✔✔is caused by the bacterium Paenibacillus and is a
disease that affects honey bee larvae. It attacks young larvae, which are killed after they
ingest infected food. The spores germinate within the larva and the bacteria grows. This
germination happens only in larvae under 3 days old.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔tracheal mite - ✔✔is an internal parasite, Acarapis wood, of honey bees and tend to
attack young bees of 3 days old or less
Large numbers of bees crawling at the entrance of the hive, unable to fly
Disorientated bees
Bees holding their wings at unusual angles (called "K wing")
✔✔Small Hive Beetle - ✔✔At its adult stage, the small hive beetle is 5-7mm (.1967 -
.2756in) long and has antennae resembling the head of a golf club. When they enter the
hive, they are usually found toward the back along the bottom board and sometimes
along the frames and running along the inner cover. The females lay their eggs in the
protected nooks of the hive. Destroys the honey.
✔✔Langstrom - ✔✔Father of modern beekeeping
1837
bee space
✔✔types of honeybees - ✔✔German black bee Apis mellifera meillifera
Italian bee Apis mellifera lugista
Caucasian bee
Carniolan bee
Russian bee
✔✔Caste of honeybees - ✔✔3 Caste - Queen, Workers, Drones
✔✔Worker Bees - ✔✔Live about 6 weeks in summer and longer in winter
starts foraging at about 3 weeks
female bee
✔✔Drone Bees - ✔✔Hang out in the Drone congregating area
Barrel shaped body
, dies as soon as it mates with queen
male bees
lives all summer
✔✔Honeybee Head - ✔✔contains 2 compound eyes and 3 ocelli eyes, 2 antennae, the
tongue (proboscs), and mandibles
✔✔Honeybee Thorax - ✔✔center of locomotion
2 sets of wings (hindwing and forewing)
6 legs (pollen press)
✔✔Honeybee abdomen - ✔✔the stinger, wax glands and reproductive organs
✔✔Waggle Dance - ✔✔When a female bee returns from foraging and needs to share
the location with her coworkers, she performs a highly complex series of steps. This is
called the waggle dance.
Each step of the dance communicates an element of information about the location
being described. The length of the waggle indicates the distance from the hive. Every
75 milliseconds of the dance indicate approximately an additional 330 feet to the
location.
✔✔Cleansing FLight - ✔✔Done when the temperature is above 50 to eliminate waste
and to get out of the hive
✔✔Parts of a flower - ✔✔The anther contains pollen. Bees seek this out and, to attract
them, flowers place the anthers near the top. They're usually round or oblong in shape
and located on the top of the stamen. In conjunction with the filament, which produces
the pollen, the anther is considered the male part of the flower
The stigma is a portion of the female part of the flower. It's also near the top and is
where pollen germinates. It works as one part of the pistil to create a mature and
fertilized ovary, known as a fruit. By this definition a tomato is a fruit, even though we
tend to think of it as a vegetable.
Petal
The petals are the most easily recognizable part of the flower. They are what our eyes
see and often identifiable by the color. The shape and color of flower petals serve to
attract bees and aid or hinder their efforts to extract pollen and nectar.
✔✔ American Foul Brood - ✔✔is caused by the bacterium Paenibacillus and is a
disease that affects honey bee larvae. It attacks young larvae, which are killed after they
ingest infected food. The spores germinate within the larva and the bacteria grows. This
germination happens only in larvae under 3 days old.
