JOURNEYMAN BEEKEEPING STUDY EXAMS
GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔European Honey Bees - ✔✔The following nest characteristics and traits describe the
African Honey Bee or the European Honey Bee?
Most often hollow trees; less often ground cavities for nest
The cavity entrance is bottom located and south-facing
The nest cavity is about 45 liters
The comb area is generally much greater
The % of area that is brood comb is about 25%
The % of area that is food comb is about 55%
Exposed comb nests are rare
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False?
A honey extractor uses gravitational force to spin the honey from the cells?
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
Embedded wires placed in foundation helps to reduce spotty brood pattern.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False?
Any honey that has been adulterated; including but not limited to those made from
honey dew, cane, or high fructose syrups, is said to be "extrafloral".
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
Male varroa mites are not parasitic.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False?
,The "Miller Method" of queen rearing involves grafting larvae of the right age into
special queen cell cups
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
The "Doolittle Method" of queen rearing involves grafting larvae of the right age into
special queen cell cups.
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
A pair of workers (honeybees), from drones of different queens, would have only their
mother queen in common.
These workers share on average 25% of their genes by descent. They are HALF
SISTERS, and are members of different subfamilies
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
Female wax moths cannot lay eggs if light is present.
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
For successful cross-pollination, growers must choose the correct variety of an
appropriate pollinizer (plant); and it must bloom at the same time as the variety that they
are raising as their crop.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False?
In North Carolina, the Apiary Inspection Agency is a service division that operates under
the umbrella of the NCSU Entomology Department.
✔✔honey made from non-floral sources - ✔✔What is extra-floral honey?
-extra nectar in the flower
-honey made from non-floral sources
-honey made from several floral sources
-All of the above
✔✔bees prefer nectar over honeydew, and will not forage on honeydew if there is
nectar forage available to them - ✔✔A fact about "Honeydew" honey is that....
• it is low in minerals
• bees prefer nectar over honeydew, and will not forage on honeydew if there is nectar
forage available to them
• bees prefer honeydew over nectar, and will not forage on plants if there is honeydew
forage available to them
• it seldom crystallizes
✔✔frozen immediately after cleaning, and right thru to the marketplace - ✔✔3. Pollen,
collected by a beekeeper for market (to humans, animals, or bees) is cleaned after
collection. Once cleaned, the pollen should be stored. There are about three
, recommended ways to store it safely. Of the following choices, which would be a safe
way to store pollen until it is marketed?
Hint: The others would be bad ideas.
• in a warm, moist environment to keep enzymes viable
• held in liquid state and dehydrated just prior to sale
• frozen immediately after cleaning, and right thru to the marketplace
• dried and kept in air-permeable containment, such as cheesecloth
✔✔all of the above - ✔✔As beekeepers we tend to observe our bees during forage. At
times, we may see them on parts of plants other than the flower, and they seem to be
foraging. We might assume that they are gathering saps to make propolis; or that they
are gathering honeydew. While this could be true, it would depend on the plant. They
could be harvesting nectar from an extrafloral nectary: a nectary that is not located on
the inner portion of the flower, and which does not play a role in pollination.
There are known plants that honey bees forage upon that have extrafloral nectaries.
Of the following, which plants have extrafloral nectaries on which honey bees forage for
nectar?
• cotton, several locations, notably the midrib of the leaf undersurface
• trumpet creeper (campsis radicans), has four nectary systems
• tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipfera) on the petals
• Cherry Laural (Prunus laurocerasus) on the leaf undersurface, between midrib and
main veins
• all of the above
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
Brood Ester Pheromone (BEP) has many functions within the colony. It stimulates
foragers to collect more pollen, at the same time it can delay the age at which younger
bees begin foraging by depressing their juvenile hormone levels.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False?
Female worker bees infected with DWV (deformed wing virus), emerge with wings that
are twisted, deformed and wrinkled.
Although they will not be capable of flying, they remain in the colony performing the
duties of a nurse bee because they don't need to utilize their wings for this task. They
will continue doing this beyond the normal age-related task, living for up to 5 weeks.
This furthers the spread of the virus within the colony by infecting developing larvae.
✔✔The hybrid workers behave like African bees, even though they carry European
genetic material. - ✔✔If, as studies suggest, some African genetic traits are dominant
over European traits;
What impact would this have on a European colony?
• The hybrid workers will cannibalize the young of European genetic descent.
• The hybrid drones will be incapable of mating with virgin European queens.
• The hybrid workers behave like African bees, even though they carry European
genetic material.
GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔European Honey Bees - ✔✔The following nest characteristics and traits describe the
African Honey Bee or the European Honey Bee?
Most often hollow trees; less often ground cavities for nest
The cavity entrance is bottom located and south-facing
The nest cavity is about 45 liters
The comb area is generally much greater
The % of area that is brood comb is about 25%
The % of area that is food comb is about 55%
Exposed comb nests are rare
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False?
A honey extractor uses gravitational force to spin the honey from the cells?
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
Embedded wires placed in foundation helps to reduce spotty brood pattern.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False?
Any honey that has been adulterated; including but not limited to those made from
honey dew, cane, or high fructose syrups, is said to be "extrafloral".
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
Male varroa mites are not parasitic.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False?
,The "Miller Method" of queen rearing involves grafting larvae of the right age into
special queen cell cups
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
The "Doolittle Method" of queen rearing involves grafting larvae of the right age into
special queen cell cups.
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
A pair of workers (honeybees), from drones of different queens, would have only their
mother queen in common.
These workers share on average 25% of their genes by descent. They are HALF
SISTERS, and are members of different subfamilies
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
Female wax moths cannot lay eggs if light is present.
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
For successful cross-pollination, growers must choose the correct variety of an
appropriate pollinizer (plant); and it must bloom at the same time as the variety that they
are raising as their crop.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False?
In North Carolina, the Apiary Inspection Agency is a service division that operates under
the umbrella of the NCSU Entomology Department.
✔✔honey made from non-floral sources - ✔✔What is extra-floral honey?
-extra nectar in the flower
-honey made from non-floral sources
-honey made from several floral sources
-All of the above
✔✔bees prefer nectar over honeydew, and will not forage on honeydew if there is
nectar forage available to them - ✔✔A fact about "Honeydew" honey is that....
• it is low in minerals
• bees prefer nectar over honeydew, and will not forage on honeydew if there is nectar
forage available to them
• bees prefer honeydew over nectar, and will not forage on plants if there is honeydew
forage available to them
• it seldom crystallizes
✔✔frozen immediately after cleaning, and right thru to the marketplace - ✔✔3. Pollen,
collected by a beekeeper for market (to humans, animals, or bees) is cleaned after
collection. Once cleaned, the pollen should be stored. There are about three
, recommended ways to store it safely. Of the following choices, which would be a safe
way to store pollen until it is marketed?
Hint: The others would be bad ideas.
• in a warm, moist environment to keep enzymes viable
• held in liquid state and dehydrated just prior to sale
• frozen immediately after cleaning, and right thru to the marketplace
• dried and kept in air-permeable containment, such as cheesecloth
✔✔all of the above - ✔✔As beekeepers we tend to observe our bees during forage. At
times, we may see them on parts of plants other than the flower, and they seem to be
foraging. We might assume that they are gathering saps to make propolis; or that they
are gathering honeydew. While this could be true, it would depend on the plant. They
could be harvesting nectar from an extrafloral nectary: a nectary that is not located on
the inner portion of the flower, and which does not play a role in pollination.
There are known plants that honey bees forage upon that have extrafloral nectaries.
Of the following, which plants have extrafloral nectaries on which honey bees forage for
nectar?
• cotton, several locations, notably the midrib of the leaf undersurface
• trumpet creeper (campsis radicans), has four nectary systems
• tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipfera) on the petals
• Cherry Laural (Prunus laurocerasus) on the leaf undersurface, between midrib and
main veins
• all of the above
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False?
Brood Ester Pheromone (BEP) has many functions within the colony. It stimulates
foragers to collect more pollen, at the same time it can delay the age at which younger
bees begin foraging by depressing their juvenile hormone levels.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False?
Female worker bees infected with DWV (deformed wing virus), emerge with wings that
are twisted, deformed and wrinkled.
Although they will not be capable of flying, they remain in the colony performing the
duties of a nurse bee because they don't need to utilize their wings for this task. They
will continue doing this beyond the normal age-related task, living for up to 5 weeks.
This furthers the spread of the virus within the colony by infecting developing larvae.
✔✔The hybrid workers behave like African bees, even though they carry European
genetic material. - ✔✔If, as studies suggest, some African genetic traits are dominant
over European traits;
What impact would this have on a European colony?
• The hybrid workers will cannibalize the young of European genetic descent.
• The hybrid drones will be incapable of mating with virgin European queens.
• The hybrid workers behave like African bees, even though they carry European
genetic material.
