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

In which of the following bee, wax glands are found?

  1. Queen bee

  2. Drone

  3. Workers

  4. Both A and C
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Worker bees, which live only around 35 days in summer, make wax from about the 10th day of their lives to the 16th. When workers are roughly 10 days old, they develop special wax-producing glands in their abdomens. The glands convert the sugar in the honey into wax, which seeps through small pores in the bee’s body leaving tiny white flakes on its abdomen. These bits of wax are then chewed by the bees. The chewed wax is added to the construction of the honeycomb. Hence, option C is correct.

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

The honey bees exhibit a type of dance to communicate the location of food. What is this known as?

  1. Waggle dance

  2. Tap dance

  3. Round dance and waggle dance

  4. Break dance
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The honey bees exhibit 2 types of dance to communicate the location of food, the round dance and the tail-wagging or waggle dance.

The round dance is used for food sources 25-100 meters away from the hive or closer. After distributing some of her new-found nectar to waiting bees the scout will begin running in a small circle, switching direction every so often. The round dance does not give directional information. Bees elicited into foraging after a round dance fly out of the hive in all directions searching for the food source they know must be there.
As the food source becomes more distant the round dance is replaced by the waggle dance. The waggle dance includes information about the direction and energy required to fly to the goal.  
Therefore, the correct answer is option C.

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

Life span of worker bee is ................

  1. 10 days

  2. 15 days

  3. 6 weeks

  4. 10 weeks
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Workers bee are the smallest castes. The life span of an adult worker bee varies with the time of the year. It takes about twenty one days in their development from egg to adult and when the colony is active in spring and summer, worker bee may live as long as 5-6 weeks. During the inactive period in winter a worker bee lives five months or more. Hence, option C is correct answer.

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

Honey mainly consists of ........................

  1. Monosaccharides

  2. Disaccharides

  3. Polysaccharides

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

Honey is composed primarily of the sugars glucose and fructose; its third greatest component is water. It consists of fructose (45%) and glucose (32-37%) that is monosaccharides and because of glucose and fructose, they gets its sweetness. Hence, option A is correct.

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

Which of the following is a correct statement?

  1. Drone is diploid.

  2. Apis indica is largest wild bee.

  3. Wax is excretory product of bee.

  4. Frisch discovered communication in bees.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

1st statement is incorrect, as drones of the honey bee are haploid and not diplod. They develop parthenogenetically from unfertilized eggs. 

2nd statement is incorrect, as Apis dorsata laboriosa and not Apis indica, the Himalayan honey bee, is the world's largest honey bee.
3rd statement is incorrect, as bee's wax is not a waste material, it is secreted by special wax glands present in the abdomen. It is used for making the hives of honeybee.

4th statement is correct, as Karl Von Frisch discovered the communication and transmission methods in the honey bee during a number of experiments and found out that when a foraging bee returns to the hive, it performs a 'waggle dance'. 
Hence, option D is correct.