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I have taken it a number of times. There is a permanent link to it on the beemaster site. It will give a different set of 50 questions each time you take it. It is fun to do, and you can pick up quite a bit of info from it. I do think a few of their answers are a bit far fetched, tho, so take it with a grain of salt.

You scored 28/50 correctly.
Ranking: You are an adequate beekeeper.
Pass the mouse pointer arrow over the red text for an explanation of those you misssed.

Here is how you scored:

Question 1
If you move a hive of bees from one location in your yard to another location 20 yards away, you can expect the bees to:

a. Immediately search out the new location and behave as if nothing has changed
b. Return to find the hive not in the expected location and settle either on the ground or seek out a nearby tree limb
c. fly away not to return
d. die of starvation because they have no where to go
The correct answer is: b

Question 2
A drone has....?

a. a mother only, no father
b. a mother and a father
c. a mother and father, but no grandfather
d. no grandparents at all
The correct answer is: a

a. water, sucrose, glucose, fructrose and small amt. of other substances
b. water, sucrose, glucose and other small amt. of other substances
c. water, sucrose, fructose and other small amt. of other substances
d. water, glucose, fructose and other small amt. of other substances
The correct answer is: d

Question 5
The major purpose of spring management is...:

a. to make sure the bees are alive after a long winter
b. to repair hives, clean bottom boards, etc.
c. to help each hive build up rapidly so they are in a position to harvest a surplus of honey
d. to replace all queens
You answered this correctly (c).

Question 7
A strong colony of bees should contain how many individual bees?

a. 10,000
b. 30,000
c. 45,000
d. 60,000
The correct answer is: d

Question 8
On a day with temperatures at -10 degrees, you find a colony on the verge of starvation. You need to feed it...:

a. open the hive and place liquid syrup in a division board feeder located next to the wall of the hive
b. Open the hive an place a bucket of liquid syrup over the inner cover hole
c. place a boardman feeder in the hive
d. open the hive and pour granulated sugar on the tops of frames above and around the cluster and add more on the inner cover near the hole
The correct answer is: d

Question 9
A bee louse -Braula coeca -- is a:

a. beetle
b. fly
c. mite
d. parasitic wasp
The correct answer is: b

Question 10
You see a large number of bees tumbling out of the hive and then taking to the air almost like a cloud. What have you observed?

a. An exodus of all the bees in the hive seeking a better home
b. The mating flight of a new queen
c. a swarm as it leaves the hive
d. a super nova
You answered this correctly (c).

Question 11
The antannae of the honey bee serves two purposes, they are?

a. brood gets chilled because there are not enough bees to cover it, when the beekeeper makes a split and the brood dies.
b. the brood gets chilled by cold weather but not because there are not enough bees to cover the brood
c. It is brood chilled by cool temperatures but the brood does not die but it may delay bee development
d. none of these
The correct answer is: a

Question 13
A queen excluder is required if the beekeeper is producing....:

a. only one
b. two to ten
c. up to 20
d. up to 60
You answered this correctly (c).

Question 15
A honey bee can not_______. Complete with the true statement.

a. perceive airborne sound
b. communicate with each other
c. detect a strange pheremone
d. produce royal jelly
You answered this correctly (a).

Question 16
All of the following are valid reasons for heating honey except:?

a. to help it flow better
b. to kill American foulbrood spores in the honey
c. to kill yeast in the honey
d. to liquify granulated honey
You answered this correctly (b).

Question 17
When bees wax is melted it will ....?

a. rise to the top of a container containing water and honey
b. sink to the bottom of the container with water and honey
c. float above the water but not the honey
d. None of these
You answered this correctly (a).

Question 18
The first observed change in worker bees behavior when the queen is lost is:

a. the production of emergency queen cells
b. the production of a roaring sound
c. increased scenting behavior
d. apparent nerousness, and increased walking and running within the hive and brood nest.
The correct answer is: d

Question 19
Queens can be raised anytime worker bees are raised.

a. true
b. false
c. void
d. void
You answered this correctly (a).

Question 20
Two colonies with populations of about 30,000 bees each will collect _______ than one hive with 60,000 bees.

a. more honey and pollen
b. about the same amount of honey and pollen
c. less honey and pollen
d. more honey but less pollen
The correct answer is: c

Question 21
Terramycin feeding should stop at least _____ before a surplus honey flow is expected

a. one day
b. one week
c. one month
d. one year
The correct answer is: c

Question 23
The best reason to have your bees registered by the Dept. of Agriculture in your state is....?

a. if you are involved in litigation you at least are not breaking the law by having bees
b. if someone is looking to buy honey, they can find you easily
c. you can find the names of other beekeepers who live near you
d. you get free bee inspections
The correct answer is: a

Question 24
The rate that honey will darken in storage is determined by:

a. being very toxic to them
b. killing plants the bee might forage nectar from
c. contaminating honey from plants sprayed with the herbicide
d. brood kills by being fed contamined pollen to developing larvae
The correct answer is: b

Question 27
Queens shipped with a package of honey bees is:?

a. is superceded about 50 percent of the time
b. is the mother of all the bees in the package she is shipped with
c. is a virgin queen that will need to mate before she can lay eggs
d. is a mated queen that will be able to lay eggs immediately after being released from her queen cage by bees unrelated to her
You answered this correctly (d).

Question 28
The male part of the flower where pollen is produced is known as the:

a. stigma
b. ovule
c. style
d. anther
The correct answer is: d

Question 29
If left without a queen for more than two days, the bees in a newly split hive will...:

a. reject any new queen given to them even if the beekeeper cuts all queen cells in the hive
b. will try to raise new queens called supercedure queens
c. will readly accept any new queen given to them even if queen cells are present in the hive
d. will try to raise new queens called emergency queens
You answered this correctly (d).

Question 30
The killing of colonies and burning equipment is often used for the control of ______________.

a. remove a strong hive from its stand and place the weak colony in its place
b. move the colony to a new location with better nectar sources, closer to water, and less stress from other bees
c. kill the queen and requeen with a young queen
d. do nothing, let mother nature handle the situation
The correct answer is: a

Question 34
A colony that has a good brood pattern with brood in all stages, particularly eggs, has a queen which has been there within the last ____ days.

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
You answered this correctly (c).

Question 35
A drone has all of the following characteristics except?

a. The head is large and the eyes predominate the head
b. They develop from fertilized eggs
c. A strong colony may have as many as 300 of them
d. The drone is the male bee in the hive
You answered this correctly (b).

Question 36
If adding one honey super at a time, the next honey super must be added when...:

a. the current top super is 3/4 full of capped honey
b. when bees seem eager to come up into the box on top
c. only when the top honey super is completely filled with honey
d. at the end of the honey flow
You answered this correctly (a).

Question 37
A queen becomes a drone layer when...:

a. she is no longer fed by the bees
b. the queen loses either of her two front feet, which determines when she lays a fertilized or unfertilized egg
c. she takes a second mating flight
d. her sperm is exausted
You answered this correctly (d).

Question 39
Honey bees have been forced to adapt to being managed by man in the following way?

a. by building comb within frames that can be removed from the hive
b. by producing liquid honey
c. by respecting the bee space discovered by Langstroth
d. by living in a dry shelter
The correct answer is: a

Question 40
Of the following, which has little to do with bees producing a good honey crop.. :?

a. pollen plants
b. favorable weather
c. bee population of the hive
d. too many hives of bees in a resticted area of honey producing plants
You answered this correctly (a).

Question 41
Fermentation is a common problem for beekeepers processing liquid honey if the honey contains more than ___ percent moisture

a. 14%
b. 16%
c. 18%
d. 100%
The correct answer is: c

Question 42
One thing you will not do when handling a package of bees

a. add sugar syrup on the outside screen wire
b. keep them cool
c. keep them in a dark place
d. remove the syrup can from the package 12 hours before you are to install the package in a hive
The correct answer is: d

Question 43
A reason to mark a queen is true in all but one of these examples

a. So the beekeeper can find her easy
b. so the beekeeper knows how old the queen is
c. so the beekeeper knows if the bees replace the marked queen
d. so the beekeeper does not have to locate the queen every time the hive is opened
You answered this correctly (d).

Question 45
A dangerous situation exist if the person stung by a bee begins to?

a. has pain in the area of the sting
b. has swelling in the area of the sting
c. shows great discomfort such as complaining about the pain
d. has difficulity breathing
You answered this correctly (d).

Question 46
Ocelli are _______.

a. eyes
b. antennae
c. feet
d. hairs
You answered this correctly (a).

Question 47
A beekeeper can check to see if a new queen has been superceded by

a. marking the queen with a dot of paint when she is introduced into the hive
b. mark the hive and check for supercedure cells
c. keep good records
d. look for eggs that are laid on the side of the cell wall
You answered this correctly (a).

Question 48
A beekeeper should have a contract with another person regarding ...:?

a. an visitor to your property who might be stung
b. rental of bees for pollination
c. liability to neighbors for bee stings
d. selling honey
You answered this correctly (b).

Question 49
A beekeeper can reduce the chance of American foulbrood in his/her equipment by?

a. interchanging frames between hives
b. by always buying bees on drawn comb rather than package bees
c. wash hive tool in a disinfectant
d. gather only swarms
You answered this correctly (c).

Question 50
A full depth frame that is filled with honey will contain ___ pounds of food.