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

In bees, pollen basket is present in

  1. Prothoracic legs

  2. Mesothoracic legs

  3. Metathoracic legs

  4. Both meso and metathoracic legs
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
The pollen basket is an arrangement of hairs found on the tibia of the metathoracic legs of some bees. The bees collect pollen and, having moistened it with saliva using their tongues, they transfer it to their hind legs and pack it into the pollen basket. By packing pollen in this manner they compact it so that it can be easily carried back to the hive or nest.
So, the correct answer is 'Metathoracic legs'.
Multiple choice zoology insects and human welfare bee keeping apiculture apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

The wax glands in honey bee are present ..............

  1. On the ventral side of the last segment.

  2. On the ventral side of last four abdominal segments.

  3. On the dorso-lateral side of first two abdominal segments.

  4. On the lateral side of last two abdominal segments.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Four sets of wax glands, situated inside the last four ventral segments of the abdomen, produce wax for comb construction. Wax bees build cells from wax, repair old cells, and store nectar and pollen brought in by other workers. Early in the worker bee's career, she will exude wax from the space between several of her abdominal segments. 

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

The name 'honey stomach' in bees is applied for

  1. Gizzard

  2. Pharynx

  3. Stomach

  4. Crop
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The crop also called as honey stomach or honey sack is a specialized part of foregut. It is similar to distensible sack. The main function of the crop is transport and storage of liquid food (water, nectar and honeydew). Another function of crop is uptake of water from its lumen. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option D.

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Which of the following statement about bee colony is wrong?

  1. Domesticated species are A.indica and A.mellifera.

  2. Sex differentiation is due to haplodiploidy.

  3. They are female dominant societies.

  4. Fertilized eggs develop into sterile females only.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Honey bee queen control the sex of their offspring as eggs pass through the ovary into the oviduct, a queen can determine whether a particular egg is fertilized or not. Unfertilized eggs become drone honey bees, while fertilized eggs develop into female workers and queens. Female workers do not mate, but they can lay infertile eggs, which in turn become male honey bees.

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What is the waxy substance produced by honey bee to repair combs called as?

  1. Propolis

  2. Honey dew

  3. Nectar

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

Propolis or bee glue is a resinous mixture that honey bees collect from tree buds, sap flows, or other botanical sources. It is used for sealing unwanted open spaces in the hive. Propolis is used for small gaps while larger spaces are usually filled with beeswax. Propolis is sticky at and above room temperature, 20$^o$C (68$^o$F). At lower temperatures, it becomes hard and very brittle.

So, the correct answer is 'Propolis'

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In which part of the body, honey bee keep the nectar for sometime? 

  1. Crop

  2. Mouth

  3. Gizzard

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

Honey is made using the nectar of flowering plants and is saved inside the beehive for eating during times of scarcity. Nectar is extracted from flowers using a bee's long, tube-shaped tongue and stored in its extra stomach, or crop. While in the crop, the nectar mixes with enzymes that transform its chemical composition and pH, making it more suitable for long-term storage.

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Honey bee after discovering the new source of nector / honey can convey the direction

  1. Cannot convey the direction.

  2. By round or tail wagging dance.

  3. By round dance only.

  4. By tail wagging dance only.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B 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.  Hence option B is correct.

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

Worker bees are .............

  1. Fertile males

  2. Fertile females

  3. Sterile females

  4. Sterile males
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A worker bee is any female bee that lacks the full reproductive capacity of the colony's queen bee. They are smaller, their abdomens are shorter, and on their hind legs they possess pollen baskets, which are used to carry pollen back from the field. The life span of worker bee is six weeks during the colony's active season. However, worker bees live longer (four to eight months) during the less active winter months.

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If the source is opposite to the direction of sun and distance is more than 75 meters then honey bee will convey the direction by

  1. Clockwise round dance

  2. Upright down tail waving dance

  3. Anti-clockwise round dance

  4. Opposite to 2 o'clock dance
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

If the new source of food is farther from the hive than 75-100 meters, the returned scout performs a dance which follows a figure-eight course while the abdomen is being wagged or laterally vibrated (upright down tail waving dance). The dancer's speed is a function of the nearness of the supply. In a quarter minute she executes 9 to 10 full figures if she has flown in from only 100 meters. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option B.