3 ENVS 2210 Exam Test Questions with
Complete Answers 2026/2027.
In a honey bee colony, the term subfamily refers to - Answer a) a group of workers having the
same father and the same mother
Varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH) bees are
a) a race of hygienic honey bees resistant to varroa mites that was developed by US scientists
b) a strain of hygienic honey bees resistant to varroa mites that was developed by US scientists
c) a subfamily of worker bees that are particularly hygenic and resistant to varroa mites
d) a subspecies of bees imported from Eastern Russia to the USA by US scientists
e) none of the above - Answer b) a strain of hygienic honey bees resistant to varroa mites that
was developed by US scientists
Queens and drones mate - Answer c) in the air always
Sister worker honey bees that are daughters of the same father and mother share
____________ genes in common
a) 25%
b) 50%
c) 75%
d) 100%
e) 0% - Answer c) 75%
The following factors favoured the evolution of high defensive behavior in African races of
honey bees - Answer a) human and animal predation of colonies
Honey bees can rear queens from larvae of egg laying workers - Answer False
Honey bee queens always lay fertilized eggs - Answer False
During a colony inspection you notice that there are queen cells being built on the combs. From
that observation you can conclude that
a) the colony is queenless
b) the colony is superseding the queen
c) the colony will swarm
, d) could be any of the three above conditions
e) could only be a&c - Answer d) could be any of the three above conditions
(the colony is queenless, the colony is superseding the queen or the colony will swarm)
Colony swarming can be prevented by
a) supplying the hive with supers to provide space as the colony grows
b) removing the hive entrance reducer by early spring to provide ventilation
c) requeening the colony to reduce colony swarming tendency
d) all of the above - Answer d) all of the above
(supplying the hive with supers to provide space as the colony grows, removing the hive
entrance reducer by early spring to provide ventilation & requeening the colony to reduce
colony swarming tendency)
The most common medicaments used to treat normal sting allergies are
a) antibiotics
b) analgesics
c) antihistamines
d) anti-inflammatory drugs
e) adrenaline injections - Answer c) antihistamines
Do crossing over and recombination occur in drone sperm production? - Answer a) No,
because drones carry a single set of chromosomes and thus chromosome synapsis with
homologous chromosomes cannot occur
Reproduction at the colony level is initiated by
a) a failing or weakening queen
b) a few workers developing ovaries and laying eggs
c) the presence of drones in the colonies
d) the workers building swarm cells
e) summer weather - Answer d) the workers building swarm cells
Queens are excluded from honey supers to keep them from ____________ - Answer b) laying
eggs in the honey cells
Complete Answers 2026/2027.
In a honey bee colony, the term subfamily refers to - Answer a) a group of workers having the
same father and the same mother
Varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH) bees are
a) a race of hygienic honey bees resistant to varroa mites that was developed by US scientists
b) a strain of hygienic honey bees resistant to varroa mites that was developed by US scientists
c) a subfamily of worker bees that are particularly hygenic and resistant to varroa mites
d) a subspecies of bees imported from Eastern Russia to the USA by US scientists
e) none of the above - Answer b) a strain of hygienic honey bees resistant to varroa mites that
was developed by US scientists
Queens and drones mate - Answer c) in the air always
Sister worker honey bees that are daughters of the same father and mother share
____________ genes in common
a) 25%
b) 50%
c) 75%
d) 100%
e) 0% - Answer c) 75%
The following factors favoured the evolution of high defensive behavior in African races of
honey bees - Answer a) human and animal predation of colonies
Honey bees can rear queens from larvae of egg laying workers - Answer False
Honey bee queens always lay fertilized eggs - Answer False
During a colony inspection you notice that there are queen cells being built on the combs. From
that observation you can conclude that
a) the colony is queenless
b) the colony is superseding the queen
c) the colony will swarm
, d) could be any of the three above conditions
e) could only be a&c - Answer d) could be any of the three above conditions
(the colony is queenless, the colony is superseding the queen or the colony will swarm)
Colony swarming can be prevented by
a) supplying the hive with supers to provide space as the colony grows
b) removing the hive entrance reducer by early spring to provide ventilation
c) requeening the colony to reduce colony swarming tendency
d) all of the above - Answer d) all of the above
(supplying the hive with supers to provide space as the colony grows, removing the hive
entrance reducer by early spring to provide ventilation & requeening the colony to reduce
colony swarming tendency)
The most common medicaments used to treat normal sting allergies are
a) antibiotics
b) analgesics
c) antihistamines
d) anti-inflammatory drugs
e) adrenaline injections - Answer c) antihistamines
Do crossing over and recombination occur in drone sperm production? - Answer a) No,
because drones carry a single set of chromosomes and thus chromosome synapsis with
homologous chromosomes cannot occur
Reproduction at the colony level is initiated by
a) a failing or weakening queen
b) a few workers developing ovaries and laying eggs
c) the presence of drones in the colonies
d) the workers building swarm cells
e) summer weather - Answer d) the workers building swarm cells
Queens are excluded from honey supers to keep them from ____________ - Answer b) laying
eggs in the honey cells
