2015 EAS T/F

1. The most significant field symptom of CCD is lack of dead adults but stored reserves still present.

2. Ultra filtration of liquid honey usually insures a clear, non-cloudy liquid that is slower to granulate in storage/sale container.

3. Nectar from a flower often has high amounts of sucrose. This sugar is reduced to simpler sugars so fully ripened honey totally lacks sucrose.

4. The bee dance for a newly discovered nectar source is usually only performed on combs of the honey super in the bee hive.

5. Neonicotinoid insecticides have been shown to prematurely age workers and cause losses in short-term bee memory. In addition they are believed, at least by some, to be responsible for extensive colony losses.

6. Africanized honey bees, unlike European bees, do not store large honey reserves.

7. Almond pollination currently (Note: 2015 question) requires over 2.5 million colonies as stocking rate is 2 or more colonies colonies/acre.

8. Colonies given 3 or more supers of drawn comb will store more food reserves than colonies given one super with additional supers added as “needed”. This supering technique is not recommended however in areas of heavy Small Hive Beetle pressure.

9. Food supplements (such as Honey-B-Healthy) that contain essential oils or essential oil droplets added to sugar syrup are effective for varroa mite control.

10. Keeping bees in a top bar hive is legal in all US States and Canadian Provinces, as long as the top bar frames are removable.

11. Reversing hive bodies in the spring assists colony buildup but reversing hive bodies in the fall may be ill-advised for overwintering success.

12. L.L. Langstroth is called the Father of Modern Beekeeping. He is so recognized because of his patented hive, his book The Hive and The Honey Bee and his advocacy of Italian queens.

13. An extractor with tangential (opposed to radial) frame placement requires realigning uncapped honey filled frames 180 degrees to fully extract.

14. Drones eggs are unfertilized, placed in comb cells with a larger diameter and require additional development hours to transform into the larval stage.

15. The swarm bivouac needs presence of a queen to remain as a swarm cluster. Swarms with queens may remain for only hours or extend their stay into days.

16. Sucrase is the enzyme used to turn nectar into honey.