2018 EAS T/F

1. Apis florea has a unique dance behavior. They dance on the horizontal surface at the top of the comb.

2. Beeswax is secreted by all adult worker bees during comb building.

3. Several metals such as iron, brass, zinc, and copper will discolor beeswax and should be avoided during rendering.

4. When a colony expands and the brood and adult populations incerease, a reduction of QMP occurs within the colony leading to preparations for requeening.

5. A benefit of purchasing a nuc colony as a means of starting a new colony, is that you are purchasing an already established, laying queen, that should build up faster than a package of bees.

6. If a colony becomes noisy, flighty or starts hitting your veil you should work faster until you are finished going through each frame in the colony.

7. Robbing is frequently beekeeper induced under poor foraging conditions and can lead to defense colony behavior.

8. If you requeen in the fall, it must be early enough for the colony to establish a compact brood area and store sufficient honey to get through the winter.

9. All honeys darken over time and this darkening is dependent on temperature and light.

10. The current mite monitoring techniques only provide a rough estimate of mite levels in a colony because they do not measure the reproductive rate or number of the reproducing mites in a colony.

11. When a worker bee stings, the alarm pheromone isopentyl acetate is released from the tissue attached to the sting.

12. The bald faced hornet is not a true hornet, but a type of yellow jacket that makes annual nests above the ground.

13. There are no federal regulations on managing honey bee diseases or the movement of honey within the United States. Such regulation is typically done at the state level.

14. What contribution was Karl von Frisch known for?

15. What is the active ingredient in Api Life Var?