ENVS 2210 Final Exam - UNITS 3 – 6
Questions and Answers 2026.
What month does a queen start to reduce her egg-laying rate in? - Answer August
How many trips must bees make to produce 80kg of honey? - Answer 4 million trips
Who first described honey bee dances? - Answer Karl von Frisch
What are 3 types of dances done by honey bees? - Answer round dance, sickle dance, wag-
tailed dance
What dance is done when food is within 80-100m of the nest? - Answer round dance
What dance is done when food is more than 100m of the nest? - Answer wagtail dance
What can the wagtail dance describe to other bees (5) - Answer distance, source, quality,
quantity, direction
If food resources are towards the suns direction, what direction is the straight part of the
wagtail dance positioned towards? (up/down/angled) - Answer up
What does gravity (aka downwards) in the wagtail dance represent? - Answer food is located
in the direction away from the sun
What do bees use to orient themselves during flight? - Answer landmarks, position of sun
Who challenged the dance language of bees in 1967? - Answer Wenner and Johnston
What are bees most attracted to in flowers (2)? - Answer scent, colour
Are visual or scent cues more important for long distance detection while foraging? - Answer
visual
How do bees find flowers (2)? - Answer by scouting, by being recruited
, What is it called when a single flower species is foraged upon during a foraging trip? - Answer
flower constancy/fidelity
Where is nectar located? - Answer inside flower nectaries
What is nectar rich in? - Answer sucrose, fructose, glucose
Which is the least attractive sugar in nectar for bees? - Answer fructose
What 2 factors affect nectar secretion by flowers? - Answer soil moisture, solar radiation
What time of day do most flowers secrete nectar? - Answer late morning to mid-afternoon
How long is the average foraging trip? - Answer 40 minutes
What do honey bees use pollen for? - Answer food for larva and newly emerged bees
What is pollen high in? - Answer protein, lipid, vitamins
How/why does pollen stick to the hair on bees legs? - Answer branched hairs, positively
charged hairs (pollen is negatively charged)
Are pollen trips generally shorter or longer than nectar trips? - Answer shorter
What is the resin from buds on plants/trees called? - Answer propolis
What do bees use propolis for? - Answer cement to close openings and cover surfaces
Where is propolis carried on the bee? - Answer pollen baskets
When does robbing behaviour more likely occur? - Answer during nectar dearth times
What is the main trigger for the construction of queen cells? - Answer not enough queen
substance produced
Questions and Answers 2026.
What month does a queen start to reduce her egg-laying rate in? - Answer August
How many trips must bees make to produce 80kg of honey? - Answer 4 million trips
Who first described honey bee dances? - Answer Karl von Frisch
What are 3 types of dances done by honey bees? - Answer round dance, sickle dance, wag-
tailed dance
What dance is done when food is within 80-100m of the nest? - Answer round dance
What dance is done when food is more than 100m of the nest? - Answer wagtail dance
What can the wagtail dance describe to other bees (5) - Answer distance, source, quality,
quantity, direction
If food resources are towards the suns direction, what direction is the straight part of the
wagtail dance positioned towards? (up/down/angled) - Answer up
What does gravity (aka downwards) in the wagtail dance represent? - Answer food is located
in the direction away from the sun
What do bees use to orient themselves during flight? - Answer landmarks, position of sun
Who challenged the dance language of bees in 1967? - Answer Wenner and Johnston
What are bees most attracted to in flowers (2)? - Answer scent, colour
Are visual or scent cues more important for long distance detection while foraging? - Answer
visual
How do bees find flowers (2)? - Answer by scouting, by being recruited
, What is it called when a single flower species is foraged upon during a foraging trip? - Answer
flower constancy/fidelity
Where is nectar located? - Answer inside flower nectaries
What is nectar rich in? - Answer sucrose, fructose, glucose
Which is the least attractive sugar in nectar for bees? - Answer fructose
What 2 factors affect nectar secretion by flowers? - Answer soil moisture, solar radiation
What time of day do most flowers secrete nectar? - Answer late morning to mid-afternoon
How long is the average foraging trip? - Answer 40 minutes
What do honey bees use pollen for? - Answer food for larva and newly emerged bees
What is pollen high in? - Answer protein, lipid, vitamins
How/why does pollen stick to the hair on bees legs? - Answer branched hairs, positively
charged hairs (pollen is negatively charged)
Are pollen trips generally shorter or longer than nectar trips? - Answer shorter
What is the resin from buds on plants/trees called? - Answer propolis
What do bees use propolis for? - Answer cement to close openings and cover surfaces
Where is propolis carried on the bee? - Answer pollen baskets
When does robbing behaviour more likely occur? - Answer during nectar dearth times
What is the main trigger for the construction of queen cells? - Answer not enough queen
substance produced
