Tag: apiculture, sericulture and fisheries

Honey is a sweet food made by honeybees using nectar from flowers. The other main product of honey bees is beeswax. Hence, option A is correct.

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.

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.

• 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'.

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

In honey bees, drones are produced from unfertilized eggs through a process called arrhenotoky. This results in the drones being haploid.

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.

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.