Apiculture MCQ Multiple Choice Questions Answers - Page 2 for Practice
31. Sting apparatus in honey bee is a modified form of
Correct Answer is: Ovipositor
32. The benefits of honey bees are
Correct Answer is: Honey, wax and pollination of flowers
33. The fertile female honey bee is called
Correct Answer is: Queen
34. The honey bees exhibit a type of dance to communicate the location of food. This is known as
Correct Answer is: Round dance and waggle dance
35. The stimuli through which a dancing scout bee communicates the location of a food source to other worker bees in a hive are
Correct Answer is: Contact and visual
36. There is a ____________ on the outer surface of the hind tibia in the workers honey bee
Correct Answer is: Pollen basket
37. What colour can the honey bee not see?
Correct Answer is: Red
38. What colour is the bees blood?
Correct Answer is: Clear
39. What does pollen consist of mainly?
Correct Answer is: Protein
40. What does the bee use to orientate itself when flying during overcast weather without sunshine?
Correct Answer is: the 2 compound eyes
41. What does the beekeeper feed the bees with?
Correct Answer is: Sugar
42. What is apiculture
Correct Answer is: Culture of honey bee
43. What is not a bee product?
Correct Answer is: Nectar
44. What is the International Federation of Beekeepers called?
Correct Answer is: Apimondia
45. What is the maximum life of a queen?
Correct Answer is: 5 years
46. What is the name given to a colony of bees
Correct Answer is: A Superorganism
47. What is varroa?
Correct Answer is: an arachnid mite
48. When honey is stored in the honey sac, it is mixed with the
Correct Answer is: Enzymes for the production of fructose and glucose
49. Where are the most varroa usually found?
Correct Answer is: in the cells of developing drones
50. Where is the surplus honey stored in the bee colony?
Correct Answer is: above the brood nest
51. Which among the following is the real product of the honey bee
Correct Answer is: Both b and c
52. Which of the following species of honey bee is reared in artificial hives
Correct Answer is: Apis indica
53. Which one of the following insects produces honey
Correct Answer is: Apis indica
54. Which organ prevents the nectar collected, being passed through into the bees digestive system in order that it can be regurgitated back at the hive?
Correct Answer is: Proventriculus valve
55. Do bees have hair?
Correct Answer is: yes
56. Do drones also collect nectar?
Correct Answer is: no
57. Does the male bee have a sting?
Correct Answer is: no
58. Does the sting of the queen have sharply barbed hooks which prevent it being withdrawn?
