ENVS2210 DE Final Exam
Test Bank Notes
Unit 1:
1. What are 3 uses for honey bees?
1. Honey bees are excellent biological study subjects
2. Honey bees are beneficial and productive insects
3. Beekeeping
2. Earliest records about beekeeping practices come from
a. Ancient Egypt
3. Who thought the queen bee was a king?
a. Aristotle
4. In what centuries was the scientific basis of beekeeping established?
a. 16th and 17th Centuries
5. Why were bees brought to the new world?
a. Because native bees did not produce large amounts of honey and wax
6. Who is known as the father of modern beekeeping?
a. Lorenzo L. Langstroth
7. What was different about Lorenzo’s new hive?
a. Movable frames which bees built combs
8. What are the main components of the 19th century
bee hives?
a. Beeswax foundation, honey extractor, queen excluder
9. How many hives are maintained globally?
a. 55 million hives
10. How much honey is produced globally every year?
a. Over 950 million kg
11. How much wax is produced globally every year?
a. Over 25 million kg
12. What country is the world’s largest producer and exporter of honey and
, royal jelly?
a. China
13. What hive type is typically used in Africa?
, a. Traditional hive (fixed combs)
14. What countries practice migratory apiculture?
a. Australia and New Zealand
15. What is the average honey yield for a hive in Canada?
a. 60kg
16. What order are honey bees classified under?
a. Hymenoptera
17. What kind of insects belong to the order hymenoptera?
a. Those with 4 membranous wings
18. What is the only function of a drone?
a. To mate with virgin queens during spring and summer
19. What sex are worker bees?
a. Females with underdeveloped reproductive organs
20. What is believed that honey bees evolved from?
a. A carnivorous Sphecoid wasp ancestor
21. What are the oldest fossil records of bees from? How old are they?
a. Northern Europe, 50 million years old
22. What Genus do honey bees fall under?
a. Apis
23. What is the taxonomical name for the honey bee?
a. Apis mellifera
24. What are the 4 common species of honey bee?
a. Apis mellifera, apis florea, apis dorsata, apis cerana
Unit 2:
25. Are honey bees holometabolous or hemimetabolous?
a. Holometabolous
26. What does it mean that honey bees are holometabolous?
a. They pass through complete metamorphosis
27. What is the developmental time for a WORKER (egg, larva, pupa, total)
, a. 3, 5.5, 7.5, 16
28. What is the developmental time for a DRONE (egg, larva,
pupa, total)a. 3, 7, 14,24
29. What does the interior of a honey bee egg contain?
a. Cytoplasm, nucleus, yolk
30. What is an instar and how many do honey bees undergo throughout
development
a. Substages separated by the moulting of the cuticle
i. 5.
31. What do nurse bees feed all larvae for the first 3 days post hatching?
a. Royal jelly
32. What larvae continue to be fed royal jelly past 3 days post- hatch?
a. Queen larvae
33. What do nurse bees feed worker and drone larvae after 3 days post hatch?
a. Bee bread (pollen and nectar)
34. After feeding, what do nurse workers do until larvae become pupae?
a. Cap cells with wax
35. What controls the metamorphosis of honey bees?
a. Hormones
36. What are the two hormones that control honey bee development? What do
they do?
a. Ecdysone (moulting hormone)
b. Juvenile hormone (cell division and body differentiation)
37. What is the exoskeleton comprised of?
a. Hardened plates made of chitin and protein
38. What are the functions of the exoskeleton?
a. Prevents dehydration, provides protection, provides support, provides
attachments for muscles and organs
Test Bank Notes
Unit 1:
1. What are 3 uses for honey bees?
1. Honey bees are excellent biological study subjects
2. Honey bees are beneficial and productive insects
3. Beekeeping
2. Earliest records about beekeeping practices come from
a. Ancient Egypt
3. Who thought the queen bee was a king?
a. Aristotle
4. In what centuries was the scientific basis of beekeeping established?
a. 16th and 17th Centuries
5. Why were bees brought to the new world?
a. Because native bees did not produce large amounts of honey and wax
6. Who is known as the father of modern beekeeping?
a. Lorenzo L. Langstroth
7. What was different about Lorenzo’s new hive?
a. Movable frames which bees built combs
8. What are the main components of the 19th century
bee hives?
a. Beeswax foundation, honey extractor, queen excluder
9. How many hives are maintained globally?
a. 55 million hives
10. How much honey is produced globally every year?
a. Over 950 million kg
11. How much wax is produced globally every year?
a. Over 25 million kg
12. What country is the world’s largest producer and exporter of honey and
, royal jelly?
a. China
13. What hive type is typically used in Africa?
, a. Traditional hive (fixed combs)
14. What countries practice migratory apiculture?
a. Australia and New Zealand
15. What is the average honey yield for a hive in Canada?
a. 60kg
16. What order are honey bees classified under?
a. Hymenoptera
17. What kind of insects belong to the order hymenoptera?
a. Those with 4 membranous wings
18. What is the only function of a drone?
a. To mate with virgin queens during spring and summer
19. What sex are worker bees?
a. Females with underdeveloped reproductive organs
20. What is believed that honey bees evolved from?
a. A carnivorous Sphecoid wasp ancestor
21. What are the oldest fossil records of bees from? How old are they?
a. Northern Europe, 50 million years old
22. What Genus do honey bees fall under?
a. Apis
23. What is the taxonomical name for the honey bee?
a. Apis mellifera
24. What are the 4 common species of honey bee?
a. Apis mellifera, apis florea, apis dorsata, apis cerana
Unit 2:
25. Are honey bees holometabolous or hemimetabolous?
a. Holometabolous
26. What does it mean that honey bees are holometabolous?
a. They pass through complete metamorphosis
27. What is the developmental time for a WORKER (egg, larva, pupa, total)
, a. 3, 5.5, 7.5, 16
28. What is the developmental time for a DRONE (egg, larva,
pupa, total)a. 3, 7, 14,24
29. What does the interior of a honey bee egg contain?
a. Cytoplasm, nucleus, yolk
30. What is an instar and how many do honey bees undergo throughout
development
a. Substages separated by the moulting of the cuticle
i. 5.
31. What do nurse bees feed all larvae for the first 3 days post hatching?
a. Royal jelly
32. What larvae continue to be fed royal jelly past 3 days post- hatch?
a. Queen larvae
33. What do nurse bees feed worker and drone larvae after 3 days post hatch?
a. Bee bread (pollen and nectar)
34. After feeding, what do nurse workers do until larvae become pupae?
a. Cap cells with wax
35. What controls the metamorphosis of honey bees?
a. Hormones
36. What are the two hormones that control honey bee development? What do
they do?
a. Ecdysone (moulting hormone)
b. Juvenile hormone (cell division and body differentiation)
37. What is the exoskeleton comprised of?
a. Hardened plates made of chitin and protein
38. What are the functions of the exoskeleton?
a. Prevents dehydration, provides protection, provides support, provides
attachments for muscles and organs
