ENTO 320 RELIABLE EXAMS 2 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔scopae ("sko-pa") - ✔✔used my Megachilladae for pollen collection (leaf-cutter
bees)
✔✔Corbicula - ✔✔Pollen basket on hind legs
✔✔Megachalipae - ✔✔Family of Superfamily Apoidea (The leaf cutter bees, mason
bees, and cuckoo bees)
✔✔Kleptoparasitic: Cuckoo Bee - ✔✔Don't collect pollen or construct nest; They lay
their eggs in the nest of bees to consume their resources.
✔✔Halictidae: Sweat Bee - ✔✔Family of Superfamily Apoidae
✔✔Direct Fitness - ✔✔Organism breeds independently, contributing their DNA to the
gene pool.
✔✔Indirect Fitness: (ex. honey bee) - ✔✔Sterile individuals who contribute to gene pool
by helping relatives
✔✔Inclusive fitness theory - ✔✔Developed by W.D Hamilton in 1963 as a model
including direct and indirect fitness.
✔✔Family Apidae - ✔✔multiple tribes ; including bombini (bumble bees), meliponini
(stingless bee), and apini (honeybee)
✔✔*Apis koschevnikovi - ✔✔red bee
✔✔Absconding v. Swarming - ✔✔Entire hive relocates v. Old queen swarms and takes
3/4 of hive for reproduction
✔✔polyandrous v monoandrous - ✔✔Multiple mates (honey bee) v single mate
(stingless bee)
✔✔monogynous v polygynous - ✔✔One queen (honey bee) v several queens
(Stingless bees)
✔✔Waggle Dance - ✔✔Communication via dance leading to food, water, nest sites,
propolis
✔✔Referential communication:: - ✔✔Communication detailing a location and how to get
there.
, ✔✔Bivouac - ✔✔Swarm cluster
✔✔QMP or Queen Mandibular Pheromone - ✔✔Scent queens gives off to keep worker
bees around her.
✔✔Apis theromregulation - ✔✔Fanning and shivering to maintain temperatures
between 33 C- 35 C
✔✔Progressive feeding - ✔✔Used by Apis to feed their brood gradually
✔✔Subgenus Micrapis - ✔✔Dwarf Honeybee Florea and Andreniformis that are both
open nesters
✔✔Florea v adreniformis - ✔✔Red and dance on top of nest v black and dance on
vertical face
✔✔Subgenus Megapis - ✔✔Giant honey bees: Laboriosa and Dorsata
✔✔Laboriosa v Dorsata - ✔✔Himalayan; confined to high altitudes; larger than Dorsata
v
Giant Honey Bee; audible buzz when they dance
✔✔Subgenus Apis - ✔✔Cavity nesters: Cerana (wax maker), mellifera (European
Honey bee), nigrocincta, koschevnikovi (Red Honey bee)
✔✔Holotype - ✔✔When one subspecies is used to describe an entire species (Ex. Apis
mellifera mellifera, the German Bee)
✔✔Thelytoky - ✔✔Queen-like traits
✔✔Parthenogenesis - ✔✔Type of asexual reproduction where offspring develop from
unfertilized egg
✔✔Apis mellifera capensis are only species that exibit ______ and females are born
via_______ - ✔✔thelytoky; parthenogenesis
✔✔2 Types of Speciation: - ✔✔Allopatric and sympatric
✔✔Allopatric speciation - ✔✔Populations separated by a long period of time and can no
longer mate.
✔✔Sympatric Speciation - ✔✔New species arises from single species while inhabiting
the same area.
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔scopae ("sko-pa") - ✔✔used my Megachilladae for pollen collection (leaf-cutter
bees)
✔✔Corbicula - ✔✔Pollen basket on hind legs
✔✔Megachalipae - ✔✔Family of Superfamily Apoidea (The leaf cutter bees, mason
bees, and cuckoo bees)
✔✔Kleptoparasitic: Cuckoo Bee - ✔✔Don't collect pollen or construct nest; They lay
their eggs in the nest of bees to consume their resources.
✔✔Halictidae: Sweat Bee - ✔✔Family of Superfamily Apoidae
✔✔Direct Fitness - ✔✔Organism breeds independently, contributing their DNA to the
gene pool.
✔✔Indirect Fitness: (ex. honey bee) - ✔✔Sterile individuals who contribute to gene pool
by helping relatives
✔✔Inclusive fitness theory - ✔✔Developed by W.D Hamilton in 1963 as a model
including direct and indirect fitness.
✔✔Family Apidae - ✔✔multiple tribes ; including bombini (bumble bees), meliponini
(stingless bee), and apini (honeybee)
✔✔*Apis koschevnikovi - ✔✔red bee
✔✔Absconding v. Swarming - ✔✔Entire hive relocates v. Old queen swarms and takes
3/4 of hive for reproduction
✔✔polyandrous v monoandrous - ✔✔Multiple mates (honey bee) v single mate
(stingless bee)
✔✔monogynous v polygynous - ✔✔One queen (honey bee) v several queens
(Stingless bees)
✔✔Waggle Dance - ✔✔Communication via dance leading to food, water, nest sites,
propolis
✔✔Referential communication:: - ✔✔Communication detailing a location and how to get
there.
, ✔✔Bivouac - ✔✔Swarm cluster
✔✔QMP or Queen Mandibular Pheromone - ✔✔Scent queens gives off to keep worker
bees around her.
✔✔Apis theromregulation - ✔✔Fanning and shivering to maintain temperatures
between 33 C- 35 C
✔✔Progressive feeding - ✔✔Used by Apis to feed their brood gradually
✔✔Subgenus Micrapis - ✔✔Dwarf Honeybee Florea and Andreniformis that are both
open nesters
✔✔Florea v adreniformis - ✔✔Red and dance on top of nest v black and dance on
vertical face
✔✔Subgenus Megapis - ✔✔Giant honey bees: Laboriosa and Dorsata
✔✔Laboriosa v Dorsata - ✔✔Himalayan; confined to high altitudes; larger than Dorsata
v
Giant Honey Bee; audible buzz when they dance
✔✔Subgenus Apis - ✔✔Cavity nesters: Cerana (wax maker), mellifera (European
Honey bee), nigrocincta, koschevnikovi (Red Honey bee)
✔✔Holotype - ✔✔When one subspecies is used to describe an entire species (Ex. Apis
mellifera mellifera, the German Bee)
✔✔Thelytoky - ✔✔Queen-like traits
✔✔Parthenogenesis - ✔✔Type of asexual reproduction where offspring develop from
unfertilized egg
✔✔Apis mellifera capensis are only species that exibit ______ and females are born
via_______ - ✔✔thelytoky; parthenogenesis
✔✔2 Types of Speciation: - ✔✔Allopatric and sympatric
✔✔Allopatric speciation - ✔✔Populations separated by a long period of time and can no
longer mate.
✔✔Sympatric Speciation - ✔✔New species arises from single species while inhabiting
the same area.
