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| queens with empty spermatica (didn't mate, or sperm got used up) |
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| How many eggs can a queen lay per day? |
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| a pheromone which attracts drones to the queen |
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| What is thelytoky? What subsepecies do we see this in? |
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when worker bees lay other worker bees or queens
apis melifera capensis |
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| What is efficient supersedure? Inefficient? |
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when an old mated queen and virgin queen coexist
old queen killed before virgin queen emerges |
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| When does supersedure typically occur? |
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| What is reproduction at the colony level? |
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high population density
increasing hive temperature
reduced queen pheromone distribution throughout the hive
queen receives too little queen substance |
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| Do queens lose or gain weight prior to swarming? |
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| Do worker bees lose or gain weight prior to swarming? |
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| gain weight (gorge with honey) |
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| Do swarms include drones? |
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-reduced foraging activity
-change in queen/worker bee weight
-bees form a beard at entrance
-queen cells in brood nest |
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| If swarming, europeean bees will seek out a site that is at least ______ in volume |
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| What is a recruitment dance? |
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| dance scouts perform to convey location about potential nest sites when colony wants to swarm |
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| Is sex determined by genes or chromosomes? |
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| gene with up to 15 alleles |
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| Do female bees of pairs or individual chromosomes? |
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| Which is dominant in honeybees, the allele for black eyes or white? |
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| refers to four-winged insects |
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| If a queen has the genotype a/b for sex genes,and mates with a drone of genotype a, what will the genotype of the offspring be? |
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Males: either a or b
Females: a/a or b/a |
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| Why do populations with only two sex alleles tend to be weak? |
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| workers will eat homozygous diploid larvae |
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| What is the relationship between brood pattern and number of sex alleles? |
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| more solid brood pattern associated with larger number of sex alleles |
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| Where is semen stored in the queen? What part of the body is this found in? |
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True or False
The number of subfamilies of workers in a colony is equal to the number of drones the mother of that colony mated with |
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| Two workers from the same father will share ____ of their genes |
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75%
(25% from the queen, 50% from the drone) |
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| Have sisters have a relationship of ____. Why? |
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25%
share the same queen mother but different father |
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| workers with the same father (and mother) |
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| tendency for workers to preferentially feed supersister queen larvae more than half sister queen larvae |
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| What does it mean that 'different subfamilies tend to specialize in different tasks'? |
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| workers from different subfamilies have different thresholds for different stimuli e.g. some may be more driven to remove dead bees, others to care for brood etc |
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| What model of reproduction to bees follow? |
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