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Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

Special dance in honey bee is for

  1. Reproduction

  2. Destruction of enemy bees

  3. Search of food

  4. Convey the information of food source
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Honey bees performs two type of dances for discovered food source. (1) Round dance is performed when a newly discovered food source is close to hive. (2) Tail wagging dance is performed for long distance source of food.

Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

Which of the following processes include the mass emigration of bees to settle down elsewhere in order to form a new hive ?

  1. Migration

  2. Swarming

  3. Spawning

  4. Carding
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The mass emigration of bees in a swarm to settle down elsewhere in order to form a new hive is called swarming. The queen bee migrates with the worker bees to a new place. Thousands of bees are present in a single swarm and this takes place mostly in the spring season. Thus the correct answer is option  B.

Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

Read the following statement 


i) It devoid of wings
ii) It has a bright red body
iii) Head, thorax and abdominal regions are not very much distinct following these above statements are referred to

  1. Queen bee

  2. Silkmoth

  3. Female laccifer

  4. Male laccifer
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
  • The queen bee is the only reproductive female in the beehive.
  • Queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed in order to become sexually mature.
  • The characteristics of the queen bee are  It devoid of wings, It has the bright red body, Head, thorax and abdominal regions are not very much distinct.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Queen bee'.
Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

In which of the following, parthenogenesis is observed?

  1. Honey bee

  2. Silkworm

  3. Earthworm

  4. House fly
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Parthenogenesis is a natural form of asexual reproduction found most commonly in lower organisms and plants. It is shown by honeybee, where male honeybees (drones) are produced parthenogenetically from unfertilized eggs. The only function of drones is to fertilize the queen bee. Hence, option A is correct.

Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

If a honey bee is conveying an information, by round dance then the distance of source will be about 

  1. 1000 mtrs

  2. 50 mtrs

  3. 2000 mtrs

  4. 150 mtrs
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The round dance is performed by the worker bees when the food source is within a 50 metres of the hive. The bee runs one way in the circle, stops and then runs the other way. During the dance the worker bee passes a sample of the nectar to the other workers so they know the taste and smell of the source.

Therefore, the correct answer is option B.