JOURNEYMAN BEEKEEPING UPDATED
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Honey bees prefer a box with a cavity size of 10.5 gallons. (T/F) - ✔✔True
✔✔All the bee's spiracles have valves to protect from water or foreign objects from
entering. (T/F) - ✔✔False
✔✔The corbiculae of drones help them latch on to the queen during mating. (T/F) -
✔✔False
✔✔Apis mellifera ligustica bees are the heaviest propolizers. (T/F) - ✔✔False
✔✔Virgin queens usually fly farther than drones from the same bee yard. (T/F) -
✔✔True
✔✔When a worker bee stings, how long does the sting pump continue pumping? -
✔✔30 to 60 seconds
✔✔The Hive and The Honeybee " was originally written by L.L.Langstroth. (T/F) -
✔✔True
✔✔Quacking and tooting by queen bees are both known as piping. (T/F) - ✔✔True
✔✔There are 18 subspecies of apis mellifera. (T/F) - ✔✔False - 26
✔✔Supercedure is usually triggered when a queen lays eggs on the side of a cell. (T/F)
- ✔✔True
✔✔Queen cells are usually constructed from old beeswax. (T/F) - ✔✔True
,✔✔Africanized bees have stronger venom than European bees. (T/F) - ✔✔False
✔✔Within 60 hours of entering a larval cell, the foundress female Varroa mite...will lay a
male egg or female egg? - ✔✔Male
✔✔Nosema (both apis and ceranae) directly effects what stages of honey bee
development? - ✔✔Adult bee
✔✔Dyce process - ✔✔How you make creamed honey
✔✔What is Travel Stain - ✔✔Refers to the dark surface of comb honey
✔✔Rabbet Joint - ✔✔A joinery technique where an "L" groove across the end of the
edge of one piece of wood fits into a edge or end of another board with an "L" groove.
✔✔wax bloom - ✔✔Powdery coating that naturally can appear on beeswax
✔✔During the development of the honey bee, larva molts into a prepupa, defecates,
and spins a cocoon with silk produced from which gland? - ✔✔the thoracic salivary
gland
✔✔Arnhart glands - ✔✔- chemicals produced known as "footprint" pheromones
- deposited as the bee walks
- used to mark home and food
- attractive to other bees
✔✔How many wax glands are found on a honey bee? - ✔✔8, 4 sets of 2
✔✔Drones never feed themselves. (T/F) - ✔✔False
✔✔• converts sucrose to glucose & fructose• converts complex sugars into simpler
sugars• aids in the ripening process of honey• - ✔✔invertase (or sucrase )
✔✔The drone's antennae are longer than the worker's. (T/F) - ✔✔True
✔✔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.
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Honey bees prefer a box with a cavity size of 10.5 gallons. (T/F) - ✔✔True
✔✔All the bee's spiracles have valves to protect from water or foreign objects from
entering. (T/F) - ✔✔False
✔✔The corbiculae of drones help them latch on to the queen during mating. (T/F) -
✔✔False
✔✔Apis mellifera ligustica bees are the heaviest propolizers. (T/F) - ✔✔False
✔✔Virgin queens usually fly farther than drones from the same bee yard. (T/F) -
✔✔True
✔✔When a worker bee stings, how long does the sting pump continue pumping? -
✔✔30 to 60 seconds
✔✔The Hive and The Honeybee " was originally written by L.L.Langstroth. (T/F) -
✔✔True
✔✔Quacking and tooting by queen bees are both known as piping. (T/F) - ✔✔True
✔✔There are 18 subspecies of apis mellifera. (T/F) - ✔✔False - 26
✔✔Supercedure is usually triggered when a queen lays eggs on the side of a cell. (T/F)
- ✔✔True
✔✔Queen cells are usually constructed from old beeswax. (T/F) - ✔✔True
,✔✔Africanized bees have stronger venom than European bees. (T/F) - ✔✔False
✔✔Within 60 hours of entering a larval cell, the foundress female Varroa mite...will lay a
male egg or female egg? - ✔✔Male
✔✔Nosema (both apis and ceranae) directly effects what stages of honey bee
development? - ✔✔Adult bee
✔✔Dyce process - ✔✔How you make creamed honey
✔✔What is Travel Stain - ✔✔Refers to the dark surface of comb honey
✔✔Rabbet Joint - ✔✔A joinery technique where an "L" groove across the end of the
edge of one piece of wood fits into a edge or end of another board with an "L" groove.
✔✔wax bloom - ✔✔Powdery coating that naturally can appear on beeswax
✔✔During the development of the honey bee, larva molts into a prepupa, defecates,
and spins a cocoon with silk produced from which gland? - ✔✔the thoracic salivary
gland
✔✔Arnhart glands - ✔✔- chemicals produced known as "footprint" pheromones
- deposited as the bee walks
- used to mark home and food
- attractive to other bees
✔✔How many wax glands are found on a honey bee? - ✔✔8, 4 sets of 2
✔✔Drones never feed themselves. (T/F) - ✔✔False
✔✔• converts sucrose to glucose & fructose• converts complex sugars into simpler
sugars• aids in the ripening process of honey• - ✔✔invertase (or sucrase )
✔✔The drone's antennae are longer than the worker's. (T/F) - ✔✔True
✔✔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.
