Apiculture

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Bees collect ___ from flowers and convert it into honey.

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The drones in honey bees are

1. Sterile male

2. Fertile male

3. Sterile female

4. Fertile female

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What is royal jelly? How does it differ from bee bread?

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Where do bees store honey?

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Rearing of bees is called

1. Horticulture

2. Silviculture

3. Sericulture

4. Apiculture

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The breeding and management of insects for silk production is called:

1. Apiculture

2. Sericulture

3. Pisciculture

4. Mariculture

Q. Scientific and commercial method of beekeeping for production of honey and wax is

1. Sericulture
2. Pisciculture
3. Apiculture
4. None of the above

Q. Pollen tablets available is market are for

1. Breeding programme
2. Supplementary food
3. Ex situ conservation
4. In vitro fertilization

Q. Select the correct match.

1. a- iv, b-i, c-iii, d-ii
2. a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i
3. a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i
4. a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii

Q. is the place where hives of honey bees are kept for their rearing to obtain honey and other products.

1. Farm
2. Apiary
3. Tank
4. Greenhouse

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What is apiculture ? How is it important in our lives ?

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What is the economic importance of apiculture?

Q.

Select the wrongly matched pairs.

1. Apiculture - Honey bee

2. Sericulture - Fish

3. Dairy farming- Milk

4. Poultry farming - Meat

Q. What is apiculture?

Q. Beeswax is a natural wax produced by ________ .

1. worker bees
2. drone bees
3. queen bee
4. indigenous bees

Q. The commercial rearing of honey bee is known as

1. Verniculture
2. Aquaculture
3. Apiculture
4. Pisciculture

Q. Give the scientific name of the most common species of honey bee reared in India. Why is it advantageous to keep bee hives in crop fields during flowering periods?

Q. Which of the following points are important for successful bee-keeping?

1. (i), (iii) and (iv)
2. (i), (ii) and (iii)
3. (ii) and (iv)
4. (i) and (iii)

Q. In India, which of the following species of honey bee is reared in artificial hives?

1. Apis indica
2. Apis dorsata
3. Apis florea
4. None of the above

Q. A queen honey bee lays eggs of

1. Two types, one forming queen and workers and second forming drones
2. One type from which all castes develop
3. Three types forming queen, drone and workers
4. Unfertilized eggs die while fertilised ones form all castes

Q. Honey bees are reared in artificial hove that is known as

Q. Plants providing nectar and pollen to the honey bee are collectively called

1. Swarm
2. Bee fauna
3. Apiary
4. Pasturage

Q. What is apiculture? How is it important in our lives?

Q. Pasturage effect honey production .

1. True
2. False

Q. Assertion :Honey bees can collect nectar and pollen both from long distances. Reason: They visit different plants for collecting pollen and nectar.

1. Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion.
2. Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion.
3. Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.
4. Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect.

Q.
Name the following:
(i) The popular indigenous breed of poultry of India.
(ii) Rearing of the honey bee.
(iii) A cross-breed of hen.
(iv) A Kashmiri goat which gives expensive wool.
(v) A viral disease of sheep.

Q. Read the following four statements A-D.
(A) Honey is a food of high nutritive value and also find use in indigenous system of medicine.
(B) Bee-keeping is the maintenance of hives of honey bee for the production of honey only.
(C) The increased demand of honey has led to small scale bee-keeping practices.
(D) Bee-keeping can be practiced in any area where there are sufficient bee pastures of wild shrubs, fruit orchards and cultivated crops.
How many of the above statements are correct?

1. Three
2. Two
3. One
4. None of the above

Q. Assertion :90% of the world rice production occurs in India. Reason: Rice is a staple food of all Indians.

1. if both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
2. if both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion
3. if Assertion is true but Reason is false
4. if both Assertion and Reason are false

Q. The .......... bees have high honey collection capacity.

1. Russian
2. Italian
3. Indian
4. African

Q. What makes you amazing in division of work in Honey bee colony. Support your answer