Beekeeping Basics Quiz

Quiz 2 - Beekeeping Basics

This is a 15 question multiple choice quiz, select the correct answers!

What is your primary concern in beekeeping?
1. The health and safety of you, your bees, and anyone in the vicinity of your apiary.
2. Keeping the apiary tidy and weed free.
3. Making as much honey as possible.
4. Making your apiary accessible to everyone, anytime.
How many castes of honeybee are there?
1. There are three - workers, drones and a queen.
2. There are four different castes
3. There only two castes
4. There can be many different castes.
Does the queen have the same lifespan as the worker bees?
1. Yes they all have the same lifespan.
2. She can live for 2 or 3 years or more depending on how fecund she is.
3. No, the workers live the longest time.
4. No, drones and queens have the same lifespan.
What constitues a queen-right colony?
1. A healthy laying queen, sufficient stores, space to expand, and overall good general health.
2. Any colony with a queen, workers, and drones.
3. A colony with evidence of brood at all stages.
4. A colony of honeybees with good store of honey in the supers.
What two things are honeybees basic needs?
1. Something to eat and somewhere suitable to stay.
2. A wooden hive in good order, and a contact feeder.
3. A laying queen and a good supply of drones.
4. Access to good forage and disease treatments.
Define a worker honeybee?
1. Any flying bee that is found in the hive.
2. Only the bees that remain in the hive to tend the brood.
3. Infertile females that carry out all foraging, nursing, and housekeeping duties in the hive.
4. The male and female flyng bees that come out of the hive
Where does the best beekeeping info and advice come from?
1. From any of the online websites that promote beekeeping.
2. From a wide range of books and publications.
3. From any of the many online websites that sell beekeeping products and services
4. From your local beekeeping community.
How long does it take for a queen to become sexually mature?
1. As soon as she hatches from the sealed cell.
2. Sexual maturity is reached after 23 days from egg.
3. At around 16 days from egg.
4. She hatches as sexually mature female.
When a queen weakens in the hive what happens?
1. The colony will weaken and start to die out.
2. She will leave the nest to re-mate in the drone zone.
3. The colony will throw her out of the hive.
4. The colony will take streps to replace her by supercedure.
What is the latin name for our native black honeybees?
1. Apis mellifera mellifera.
2. Apis mellifera carnica
3. Apis mellifera lugistica
4. The Buckfast Bee
What does the presence of drones in the hive mean to the beekeeper?
1. It means the colony is in queen-right condition.
2. They indicate the start of the summer forage season.
3. They indicate the start of the swarming season.
4. They indicate that the queen is laying properly.
Do Drones contribute to foraging, feeding or other housekeeping activities?
1. They don't forage or feed the brood but do help with moral and temperature control.
2. No, they are known as the lazy layabouts of the colony.
3. Yes they do as much work as the rest of the workers.
4. No they are just adrain on the hives resouces when not mating.
How many days from egg laid does it take for a worker to emerge from a sealed cell?
1. 3 days egg, 5 open cell, 13 sealed brood, 21 days to emergence.
2. 3 days egg, 5 open cell, 8 sealed cell, 16 days to emergence.
3. 3 days egg, 6 open cell, 15 seled cell, 24 days to emergence.
4. 3 days egg, 7 open cell, 13 sealed cell, 23 days to emergence.
How many days from egg laid does it take for a drone to emerge from a sealed cell?
1. 3 days egg, 5 open cell, 13 sealed brood, 21 days to emergence.
2. 3 days egg, 6 open cell, 15 seled cell, 24 days to emergence.
3. 3 days egg, 5 open cell, 8 sealed cell, 16 days to emergence.
4. 3 days egg, 7 open cell, 13 sealed cell, 23 days to emergence.
How many days from egg laid does it take for a queen to emerge from a sealed cell?
1. 3 days egg, 6 open cell, 15 seled cell, 24 days to emergence.
2. 3 days egg, 5 open cell, 13 sealed brood, 21 days to emergence.
3. 3 days egg, 7 open cell, 13 sealed cell, 23 days to emergence.
4. 3 days egg, 5 open cell, 8 sealed cell, 16 days to emergence.

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