IB1090911 Busy bees—honey, wax, pollen, and propolis
February 13, 2009, Pages 72-81
1. To produce a kilogram of honey (2.2 lb) requires on average how many loads of nectar?
a. 100
b. 1,000
c. 100,000
d. 1,000,000
2. True or false: When a forager returns to the hive, nectar in the honey stomach goes directly into a
wax cell to “cure.”
3. What are two things that bees do to turn nectar into honey?
a.
b.
4. Of the following sugars, which is least sweet-tasting?
sucrose
fructose
glucose
5. What is not present in honey in significant quantities?
a. vitamins
b. minerals
c. enzymes
d. lipids
6. Most substances in honey are health-promoting; name two types of substances that can potentially
cause injury; a.
b.
7. Honeydew honey is made from:
a. exudations from honeydew melon b. dew that appears on flowers in the morning
c. soft beech scale excrement
d. nectar from the honey flower Lambertia formosa
8. From what era do the oldest depictions of honey gathering date?
a. 80,000 years ago
b. 8,000 years ago
c. 800 years ago
9. What is mead?
10. When were skeps in widespread use?
a. in ancient Egypt between 2400 and 600 BC
b. in Rome in the first century BC
c. in medieval Europe, around 1200 AD
d. in modern times, since the 19th century
11. How long has the movable frame hive been in use?
a. since ancient Egypt, starting between 2400 and 600 BC
b.since Rome, starting in the first century BC
c. since medieval Europe, starting around 1200 AD
d. in modern times, starting in the nineteenth century
12. Reverend L.L. Langstroth’s principal contribution to apiculture was
a. developing methods for artificially inseminating queens
b. introducing Apis mellifera scutellata to North American
c. inventing the movable frame hive
d. patenting the centrifugal honey extractor
13. What is “bee space”?
14. What are two reasons honey is widely used in the baking industry?
a.
b.
15. List two ways, other than in baking, that honey is used today:
a.
b.
16. Why might honey be considered a “nutraceutical”? (What is a nutraceutical?)
16. Manuka honey has FDA approval for treatment of
a. sore throats b. stomach ulcers
c. cataracts
d. MRSA infections
17. Name two of the leading honey-producing countries in the world:
a.
b.
18. What contaminant has been found in imported Chinese honey?
a. ciprofloxacin
b. chloramphenical c. corn syrup d. all of the above
19. Beeswax is a secretion of glands located on the ventral side of the honey bee’s ___________.
20. To produce one pound of wax a colony consumes how much honey?
a. one pound
b. ten pounds
c. fifty pounds
21. List three attributes of beeswax that make it such useful material:
a.
b.
c.
22. Explain how wax is used in the following artistic media:
a. batik
b. lost wax casting
c. pysanky
23. True or false: In Asia, the economic value of royal jelly exceeds the value of honey.
24. Royal jelly
a. restores youth
b. enhances the sex drive
c. prolongs life
d. none of the above
25. True or false: Only larvae destined to become queens are fed royal jelly
26. Royal jelly is secreted from the
a. Nasanov gland
b. hypopharyngeal gland
c. wax glands
d. flowers
27. Why do people purchase and consume bee pollen?
28. Propolis is produced by bees from _______ ________. In the colony it is used to _______
_______. Commercially it is sold in health food stores because of its high content of ___________.
29. For what commercial purpose have dead adult bees been used?