Apiculture

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What are the desirable characteristics of bee varieties suitable for honey production?

Q.

What is the use of Apiculture?

Q.

The secretion from the abdominal glands of the worker bee is

1. honey

2. nectar

3. beeswax

4. lac

Q. Define apiculture.

Q.

Pollen grains of sunflower are

1. Tissue

2. Cell

3. Organ

4. Organ system

Q. Name few varieties of bees used for commercial honey production.

Q. Beeswax is a natural wax ___ .

1. Produced by the worker bees
2. Produced by the drone bees
3. Produced by the queen bee
4. Present in the honey

Q. Honey bees live in their hives. There are _________ thousand bees in one hive.

1. 30-40
2. 40-50
3. 50-60
4. 60-70

Q. Write the scientific name of the most common species of honey bee reared. Mention the kind of areas that are suitable for bee-keeping practices. Mention any two uses of bee wax.

Q. State four desirable characteristics of bee varieties suitable for honey production.

Q. Differentiate between apiculture and pisciculture.

Q.

Honeybees are kept in ______.

Q.

Name the species of the honey bee, which is used for commercial production of honey.

Q. Beewax is the secretion of abdominal glands of

1. drones
2. worker bees
3. queen bees
4. worker and queen bees.

Q. Honeybee makes honey from

1. Bud
2. Pollen
3. Petals
4. Nectar

Q.

Which of these products are obtained from honeybees?

1. Honey
2. Wax
3. Blood serum
4. Cell sap

Q. Males of honey bee colony are

1. drones
2. workers
3. soldiers
4. draughts.

Q. Which among the following organisms is reared in apiculture?

1. Cows
2. Bees
3. Fishes
4. Oysters

Q. Simplify the underlined part of the given sentence (if necessary):
As contrasted with the honeybee, the yellow jacket can sting repeatedly without dying and carries a potent venom that can cause intense pain.

1. Unlike that of the honeybee
2. As contrasted with the honeybee
3. In contrast to the honeybee's
4. Unlike the sting of the honeybee
5. Unlike the honeybee

Q. Keeping beehives in crop fields during flowering period increases __________________.

1. Crop yield
2. Honey yield
3. Weeds yield
4. Both (a) and (b)

Q.

Which of the following varieties of honey bee are correctly matched to their scientific names?

1. Apis mellifera - Italian bee

2. Apis mellifera - Little bee

3. Apis cerana indica - Indian bee

4. Apis florae - Rock bee

Q. Define Bee keeping.

Q. Differentiate between.
Apiculture and aquaculture