ENTO 320 MIDTERM EXAMS 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What type of speciation results from barrier formation that keeps 2 populations in
isolation? - ✔✔Allopatric.
✔✔Apis bees demonstrate ________ provisioning of brood. - ✔✔Progressive.
✔✔Cavity nesting Apis bees, such as Apis cerana, build only one wax comb. - ✔✔False
✔✔The European honey bee (our model oragnism) belongs to the family _________. -
✔✔Apidae.
✔✔Apis mellifera generally are smaller than Apis cerana. - ✔✔False.
✔✔Which is a major difference between Apis florea and Apis andreniformis? -
✔✔Coloration.
✔✔Which of the following cavity nesting species is least Asian in distribution? - ✔✔Apis
mellifera.
✔✔Drones have more eye facets (lenses) than workers. - ✔✔True.
✔✔An insect that is light in color and soft because it recently underwent ecdysis is
called what? - ✔✔Teneral.
✔✔In tests using PER, a honey bee is trained to extend her proboscis after a stimulus is
given. - ✔✔True.
✔✔What bee mouthpart/s would most likely be used to pull a dead larva from its cell? -
✔✔Mandibles.
✔✔Wax is secreted by honey bees by paired glands in their ______________ and then
harden into _______________. - ✔✔Abdomen, scales.
✔✔Alarm pheromone production increases as worker bees age. - ✔✔True.
✔✔What type of nitrogenous waste is dumped into the hindgut by the Malpighian
tubules? - ✔✔Uric acid.
✔✔Functional analogies can be made between the Malpighian tubules and _________,
and the fat bodies and _________ of vertebrates. - ✔✔Kidneys, liver.
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What type of speciation results from barrier formation that keeps 2 populations in
isolation? - ✔✔Allopatric.
✔✔Apis bees demonstrate ________ provisioning of brood. - ✔✔Progressive.
✔✔Cavity nesting Apis bees, such as Apis cerana, build only one wax comb. - ✔✔False
✔✔The European honey bee (our model oragnism) belongs to the family _________. -
✔✔Apidae.
✔✔Apis mellifera generally are smaller than Apis cerana. - ✔✔False.
✔✔Which is a major difference between Apis florea and Apis andreniformis? -
✔✔Coloration.
✔✔Which of the following cavity nesting species is least Asian in distribution? - ✔✔Apis
mellifera.
✔✔Drones have more eye facets (lenses) than workers. - ✔✔True.
✔✔An insect that is light in color and soft because it recently underwent ecdysis is
called what? - ✔✔Teneral.
✔✔In tests using PER, a honey bee is trained to extend her proboscis after a stimulus is
given. - ✔✔True.
✔✔What bee mouthpart/s would most likely be used to pull a dead larva from its cell? -
✔✔Mandibles.
✔✔Wax is secreted by honey bees by paired glands in their ______________ and then
harden into _______________. - ✔✔Abdomen, scales.
✔✔Alarm pheromone production increases as worker bees age. - ✔✔True.
✔✔What type of nitrogenous waste is dumped into the hindgut by the Malpighian
tubules? - ✔✔Uric acid.
✔✔Functional analogies can be made between the Malpighian tubules and _________,
and the fat bodies and _________ of vertebrates. - ✔✔Kidneys, liver.
