BEEKEEPING EXAM 3 CORRECT 100%
The earliest depictions of bees were on - ANSWER rock art
swarms accurately depicted in South Africa
Honey collecting from a high nest using a ladder
Group below may have been waiting for a share of the honey and were possibly part of
a religious rite - ANSWER Eastern Spain
discovered in 1919 probably made 10-15,000 years ago
the ladder or ropes are probably made of esparto, grass, and carry the combs in bags -
ANSWER Painting in Arana
Honey hunters used smoke, rope ladders, an scrape combs in basket - ANSWER
located in Nepal
beeswax would be found in ancient digs and finds
beeswax was coming from all-over; continental wide trade
-honey bees interwoven in early farming practices - ANSWER Beekeepers and early
agriculture
Forest beekeepers would harvest honey through through doors cut in the back of the
tree
would brand trees to lay claim to hives - ANSWER Honey Robbing in 18th Century
Germany
made of deer or other horn
capture one or a couple of bees and close the door
release bees one at a time and follow them home
-can triangulate the location of the bees - ANSWER Bee Traps
A small, old-world family of birds with 15 species in Africa and 2 in Asia
Diet consists of insects, honey and beeswax - ANSWER Honey Guides
Why are honeyguides parasitic? (like woodpeckers) - ANSWER They take the eggs out
of other birds nests and then lay their birds in it. The mother bird will then raise
honeyguides as their own.
They guide other animals to bee nests
The honey badger (species of ratel), co-evolved with honeyguides
The birds have adapted to lead honey-badgers to bee nests and eat the leftovers.
(FALSE FACT)
Help humans find honey by using various songs to indicate where nests are. -
ANSWER Honeyguides
, smoke, dust, or honey-water was used to pacify bees, while burning cow dung was
used to harvest honey - ANSWER ancient beekeeping
spread through interacting cultures
ancient africans, Babylonians, etc. had beekeepers - ANSWER Independent rise and
spread of apiculture worldwide
Simple fix-combed hives
Earthenware jars or hallowed tree trunks
Often had "backdoors" to harvest honeycombs
-hang hives from trees - ANSWER Clay or Log Hives
Type of upright log hive
Usually had a "roof" and internal support structures
Popular in the 20th Century - ANSWER Gum Hives
Very simple shelters with no internal support for combs (fixed comb hive) - ANSWER
Box Hives
Made from straw with support sticks to hold the combs
Inspected from open bottoms (FIXED COMB HIVE) - ANSWER Skep Hives
The four types of fixed-comb hives - ANSWER Log, Clay, Box, and Skep
Beekeeping and the church were intertwined usually
Monks would raise and provide honey for the church
Integrated honey "supers" in skep hives - ANSWER Religion and Beekeeping
Watercolor from Africa, date unknown
Log Hives - ANSWER African Art
Julius Cesar, ACT V
-Used bees to reinforce the imagery of sweetness - ANSWER Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act V
Henry V
--"British Society mirrors a honey bee hive"
A lot of underlying biology to use as a metaphor - ANSWER Shakespeare
Importance of bees to Greeks and Romans made its "rebirth" a natural extension during
this period
Symbol of universality, timelessness, unchanging, and internal support
--American Independence/ Dream - ANSWER Bees in the Neoclassical Age (1660-
1798): the acme of symbolism
The earliest depictions of bees were on - ANSWER rock art
swarms accurately depicted in South Africa
Honey collecting from a high nest using a ladder
Group below may have been waiting for a share of the honey and were possibly part of
a religious rite - ANSWER Eastern Spain
discovered in 1919 probably made 10-15,000 years ago
the ladder or ropes are probably made of esparto, grass, and carry the combs in bags -
ANSWER Painting in Arana
Honey hunters used smoke, rope ladders, an scrape combs in basket - ANSWER
located in Nepal
beeswax would be found in ancient digs and finds
beeswax was coming from all-over; continental wide trade
-honey bees interwoven in early farming practices - ANSWER Beekeepers and early
agriculture
Forest beekeepers would harvest honey through through doors cut in the back of the
tree
would brand trees to lay claim to hives - ANSWER Honey Robbing in 18th Century
Germany
made of deer or other horn
capture one or a couple of bees and close the door
release bees one at a time and follow them home
-can triangulate the location of the bees - ANSWER Bee Traps
A small, old-world family of birds with 15 species in Africa and 2 in Asia
Diet consists of insects, honey and beeswax - ANSWER Honey Guides
Why are honeyguides parasitic? (like woodpeckers) - ANSWER They take the eggs out
of other birds nests and then lay their birds in it. The mother bird will then raise
honeyguides as their own.
They guide other animals to bee nests
The honey badger (species of ratel), co-evolved with honeyguides
The birds have adapted to lead honey-badgers to bee nests and eat the leftovers.
(FALSE FACT)
Help humans find honey by using various songs to indicate where nests are. -
ANSWER Honeyguides
, smoke, dust, or honey-water was used to pacify bees, while burning cow dung was
used to harvest honey - ANSWER ancient beekeeping
spread through interacting cultures
ancient africans, Babylonians, etc. had beekeepers - ANSWER Independent rise and
spread of apiculture worldwide
Simple fix-combed hives
Earthenware jars or hallowed tree trunks
Often had "backdoors" to harvest honeycombs
-hang hives from trees - ANSWER Clay or Log Hives
Type of upright log hive
Usually had a "roof" and internal support structures
Popular in the 20th Century - ANSWER Gum Hives
Very simple shelters with no internal support for combs (fixed comb hive) - ANSWER
Box Hives
Made from straw with support sticks to hold the combs
Inspected from open bottoms (FIXED COMB HIVE) - ANSWER Skep Hives
The four types of fixed-comb hives - ANSWER Log, Clay, Box, and Skep
Beekeeping and the church were intertwined usually
Monks would raise and provide honey for the church
Integrated honey "supers" in skep hives - ANSWER Religion and Beekeeping
Watercolor from Africa, date unknown
Log Hives - ANSWER African Art
Julius Cesar, ACT V
-Used bees to reinforce the imagery of sweetness - ANSWER Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act V
Henry V
--"British Society mirrors a honey bee hive"
A lot of underlying biology to use as a metaphor - ANSWER Shakespeare
Importance of bees to Greeks and Romans made its "rebirth" a natural extension during
this period
Symbol of universality, timelessness, unchanging, and internal support
--American Independence/ Dream - ANSWER Bees in the Neoclassical Age (1660-
1798): the acme of symbolism
