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Quiz about Toasting the Queen
Quiz about Toasting the Queen

Toasting the Queen Trivia Quiz


Do you toast the queen? This and other honeybee-related questions are considered in this quiz.

A multiple-choice quiz by suomy. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
suomy
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
366,656
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
534
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 216 (8/10), Guest 136 (6/10), Guest 174 (5/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which type of bee is key to the long term survival of the colony?
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Question 2 of 10
2. The temperature inside the hive is normally kept about 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit). This is for the benefit of the queen and her brood cells. What do the bees do when the hive gets too hot?
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Question 3 of 10
3. What is the main source of protein for worker bees?
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Question 4 of 10
4. What is it that determines whether a bee larva becomes a queen bee?
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Question 5 of 10
5. A bee product, propalis, could be considered the glue that holds the hive together. People have found medicinal uses for it as well as using it in car waxes, chewing gum and on stringed instruments such as violins. What is its main component?
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Question 6 of 10
6. The foraging range of a bee is around five kilometres, plus or minus a few. What is the key factor in determining how far a bee will forage for its food?
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Question 7 of 10
7. Bee-keepers will usually want to harvest as much honey as possible, which in practice means removing the winter food supply of honey from the hive. Other than honey, what is normally fed to the bees instead? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The queen bee typically quits the hive with a swarm of bees at some point to establish a new hive, leaving several replacement queens close to emerging from their queen cells. What is the first thing a queen will normally do on emerging from her cell? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Assuming you have good weather, what time of day is the best time to move a hive during the spring or summer? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Why is smoke used by some bee-keepers when working on a bee hive?
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which type of bee is key to the long term survival of the colony?

Answer: Queen bee

The hive consists of the queen bee (normally just one), worker bees and drones. Her main role is to produce eggs, some say up to 2,000 per day. Without the queen to provide replacement bees, the hive will die. The drones are the male bees, who have no jobs in the hive. They have no pollen baskets for collecting, no sting to defend themselves nor glands for making wax. Their primary role is to mate with queens, after which they die. The worker bees do everything else, more or less. There is no king bee.
2. The temperature inside the hive is normally kept about 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit). This is for the benefit of the queen and her brood cells. What do the bees do when the hive gets too hot?

Answer: Circulate cooling air

If the hive gets too hot, you will see bees lined up at the hive entrance beating their wings to extract heat from the hive. They will also use evaporative cooling techniques, placing droplets of water in the hive. Poor ventilation in the hive and crowding can contribute to the hive getting too hot. Sometimes unoccupied bees will hang on the outside of the hive like a beard until the temperature inside drops.

During winter when the outside temperature drops too low, the bees will cluster together, vibrating their flight muscles to generate heat and keep the queen and the brood cells warm.
3. What is the main source of protein for worker bees?

Answer: Pollen

Foraging bees collect nectar and pollen. The pollen can be formed into granules with a bit of nectar or honey to form bee pollen. Another source of protein is royal jelly, which includes pollen as an ingredient, however worker bees create it rather than eat it. Royal jelly is fed to all bee larvae for their first three days.
4. What is it that determines whether a bee larva becomes a queen bee?

Answer: The food it eats

An enlarged queen cell is made to take the egg, which is a standard egg. After the first three days when all larvae are fed royal jelly, only those destined to be queen bees continue to be fed royal jelly. Royal jelly, a secretion coming from worker bees, contains a protein called royalactin which is responsible for the development of the morphological changes found in a queen bee. This is an example of you are what you eat.

Various things may trigger the creation of a new queen, typically the existing queen begins to fail or there are favourable conditions for swarming (when the old queen leaves the hive with a large part of the colony). The sudden death of the existing queen may lead also lead to the creation of an emergency queen, failing which, the colony will fail.
5. A bee product, propalis, could be considered the glue that holds the hive together. People have found medicinal uses for it as well as using it in car waxes, chewing gum and on stringed instruments such as violins. What is its main component?

Answer: Tree resin

In the past propalis was considered to be used primarily for weatherproofing the hive and plugging draughts. Other uses are now believed to include helping with disease control in the hive and prevention of fungal and bacterial growth. Dead mice have been found in hives encased in propalis, effectively mummifying them, where it has not been practical to eject the carcases.
6. The foraging range of a bee is around five kilometres, plus or minus a few. What is the key factor in determining how far a bee will forage for its food?

Answer: Where the desirable flowers are

How far a bee travels generally depends on what food is available where. Bees can be quite picky and may ignore low-nectar plants surrounding the hive in favour of the field of brassicas or clover meadow a kilometre away. The further it has to travel, the less it can collect and so the less honey that gets made. Generally, though, if they can find what they want locally, they will stay local.
7. Bee-keepers will usually want to harvest as much honey as possible, which in practice means removing the winter food supply of honey from the hive. Other than honey, what is normally fed to the bees instead?

Answer: Sugar

Sugar is typically given to the bees in dry form as granules or as a watery syrup. Feeding them honey is best. If you don't feed the bees, they will starve. Flowers, their source of nectar and pollen, are much less plentiful in winter. The weather also tends to be poorer and colder in winter, meaning the bees spend more time hanging about in a cluster in the hive doing their best to keep warm.
8. The queen bee typically quits the hive with a swarm of bees at some point to establish a new hive, leaving several replacement queens close to emerging from their queen cells. What is the first thing a queen will normally do on emerging from her cell?

Answer: Kill the other virgin queens

Queen succession usually results in only one queen remaining in the hive. The first queen to emerge will seek to kill off the others by stinging them in their cells or, if another has emerged, in a fight. The queen bee's stinger is not barbed (unlike the worker bee's) and so she can sting repeatedly. The surviving virgin queen normally then goes on a mating flight before settling back in the hive to start egg production.
9. Assuming you have good weather, what time of day is the best time to move a hive during the spring or summer?

Answer: Towards dusk

Bees will be active in the day time during good weather, seeking out nectar and pollen. Towards dusk, most of the foraging bees will have returned to the hive and you still have some light to work with. Midnight tends to be a bit dark and most folk prefer to be in bed by then.

The same applies to dawn. If you had a cold and wet day, there would be few bees out foraging so that would be another possible time to move a hive.
10. Why is smoke used by some bee-keepers when working on a bee hive?

Answer: To pacify the bees

There seem to be two main effects of smoke. The first is to mask the alarm pheromones given off by the guard bees or any bees hurt by opening the hive. Secondly, smoke suggests fire to the bees which prompts them to feed on honey prior to abandonment of the hive.

This reduces their ability to sting and focusses their minds on another task. A cool smoke is preferred to avoid toasting the queen, or any other bees for that matter.
Source: Author suomy

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