June Management Quiz

Quiz 7f June Management

This is a 12 question multiple choice quiz, select the correct answers!

What makes June the busiest month in beekeeping?
1. Colony build up, swarming, lack of forage, spring honey crop ready.
2. Over-crowded hives attracting wasps and bumblebees.
3. Its a notorious month for colony collapse disorder.
4. So that the beekeeper can take time off in July.
In beekeeping what is know as the 'June Gap'?
1. When the bees take a rest from foraging and brood rearing.
2. When there are no eggs being laid in the brood chamber.
3. A period when the weather patterns change from spring to summer.
4. When spring flowers finish and summer flowers are not yet in bloom.
What does a beekeeper understand as swarming behaviour?
1. The natural manner in which honeybees proliferate.
2. Any time the bees gather together in a large group on the front of the hive.
3. The behaviour displayed when the hive is opened up on a hot day.
4. When bees congregate around an abundant source of nectar.
What are the indications in the hive of swarming behaviour?
1. Increased forging activity and flows at the hive entrance.
2. The colony becoming tetchy, stingy, and in bad humour.
3. Presence of drones, queen cups, swarm cells, and overcrowding.
4. When the colony numbers start to drop.
Why is a swarm undesireable for the beekeeper?
1. It means chasing round the countryside to find and catch it.
2. It leaves the colony in a bad mood and difficult to manage.
3. It means no more honey for the rest of the year.
4. It's a big loss of bees and honey, leaving the hive unproductive for several weeks.
How does a beekeeper avoid losing a swarm?
1. Keep cutting out and removing any and all swarm cells.
2. Regular full inspections during May and June, artificially swarming or splitting colonies as required.
3. Put on extra supers to allow more room in the hive.
4. Double up the brood box to allow more room.
What equipment is required for artificially swarming a colony.
1. A supply of empty supers to make more space.
2. Made up brood frames with fresh wired foundation.
3. A small nuc box with frames and wired foundation.
4. A floor, a brood box filled with frames of fresh wired foundation, a crown board and a roof.
When artificially swarming a colony, where should the original queen end up?
1. In the new brood box, in the original location with some brood, but no swarm cells.
2. In the new brood box, at a new location along with the swarm cells.
3. In the original brood box, with all the brood and the swarm cells.
4. In the original brood box, with some brood and in a new location.
When artificially swarming a colony, where should the swarm cells end up?
1. In the original location with all the brood and a few attendant bees.
2. In the new location with all the brood and attendant bees.
3. In the original location with a couple of frames of bees.
4. In the new location with a couple of frames of brood and attendant bees.
What are the benefits of creating nucleus colonies in the apiary?
1. It helps to keep the apiary busy with foraging bees.
2. It is the best way to increase colony numbers and to discourage swarming.
3. It provides the beekeeper with something to do when its quiet.
4. They are easier to manage and handle than full colonies.
Does a nucleus colony require queen cells to be successfull?
1. Yes, otherwise it will die out if there are no swarm cells.
2. Yes to encourage the the attendant bees to forage and nurse the brood.
3. No, a virgin queen will find the queenless nucleus.
4. No, the attendant bees will create an emergency queen from a suitable egg.
What happens when a colony carries out a 'supercedure'?
1. The colony detects and replaces a failing or weakening queen with a new virgin queen.
2. The colony moves alll the adult bees up into the supers to create space.
3. The queen stops producing worker brood and concentrates on drones production.
4. When a colony quickly fills a super up with honey during a flow.

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