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Honey Bee performs round dance to indicate food source. The distance between hive and food source is

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  1. 50 m

  2. 100 m

  3. 1000 m

  4. 2000 m.

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
HONEY BEE CHARACTERISTICS
$\rightarrow$ $15$mm long
$\rightarrow$ Body is segmented into stinges, legs, antena, three segments of thorax, six segments of abdomen
$\rightarrow$ Thorax of the bee consists of wings, legs and mucles that control their movement.
$\rightarrow$ In each colony, one egg laying queen is present who produces $2000$ eggs a day.
$\rightarrow$ Adult workers tend the larvae inside the cells.
$\rightarrow$ Drones(male bees) mate with the queen, after which they die.
$\rightarrow$ They follow haplodiploidy.
$\rightarrow$ Lifespan is about $4$ months for ever wintering drones. However the average lifespan is about $5-6$ weaks or $1-2$ months.
Honey bees communicate through dance language:-
$1)$ Waggle dance when food is $150$ to $200$ metres away
$2)$ Round dance when food source is $25$ to $50$ metres away.
Correct option A.

Given below are assertion and reason. Point out if both are true with reason being correct explanation (A), both true but reason is not correct explanation (B), assertion true but reason is wrong (C), and both are wrong (D).
Assertion. Honey Bee queen copulates only once in her life time.
Reason. Honey Bee queen can lay fertilised as well as unfertilized eggs.

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  1. A

  2. B

  3. C

  4. D

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Correct Option: B

Life span of Honey Bee drone is__________.

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  1. 3-4 months

  2. 1-2 months

  3. 6-7 months

  4. 10-12 months.

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Correct Option: B

Termitarium is the nest of___________.

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  1. Bees

  2. Wasps

  3. White Ants

  4. Black Ants.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:
C) White Ants
Termites are also known as White Ants. So, white ants lines in the termitarium nest.
A nest built by a colony of termites underground as in a tree as an artificial nest used to house termites in a laboratory.

Which of the following statement is correct?

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  1. Apis indica is the largest wild honey bee.

  2. Wax is waste material of honey bee.

  3. Von Frisch discovered the news transmission methods in the honey bee.

  4. Drone of the honey bee is diploid.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

1st statement is incorrect as Apis dorsata laboriosa and not Apis indica, the Himalayan honey bee, is the world's largest honey bee.

2nd statement is incorrect as bees wax is not a waste material, it is secreted by special wax glands present in the abdomen. It is used for making the hives of honeybee.
3rd statement is correct as Karl Von Frisch discovered the transmission methods in the honey bee during a number of experiments and found out that when a foraging bee returns to the hive, it performs a waggle dance. 
4th statement is incorrect as drones of the honey bee are haploid and not diplod. They develop parthenogenetically from unfertilized eggs.
Therefore, the correct answer is option C.

A typical hive contains approximately 20,000 bees classified as either the female queen (n=1), male drones (n=20), and workers (the balance of the hives population). The queen's primary function is to mate with drones and lay the eggs that give rise to the following generation, whereas the worker bees fulfill all day-to-day functions of the hive, including foraging, guarding the nest, tending to the drones and to the queen in addition to constructing the hive.
The European honey bee, Apis mellifera, is capable of producing an inhibitory signal, the stop signal, which can be triggered by encounters with dangerous conditions or organisms. This stop signal reduces recruitment of other foragers to a dangerous location. For example, A . mellifera foragers produce stop signals to inhibit waggle dancing for dangerous food sources.
A stop signal is a 300 - 400 Hz vibrational signal with a duration of approximately 150 mts that a worker usually delivers while butting its head into the body of the receiver, causing the receiver to momentarily freeze. Attacks by wasps and spiders (among other predators) elicit stop signals, which inhibit waggle dancing. However, stop signals are also used in other inhibitory contexts that are not associated with danger.
Each of the following activities plausibly stimulate foraging inhibition and contribute to the overall success of the colony except

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  1. House-hunting bees speed up nest site decision-making with stop signals that inhibit recruitment for competing nest sites.

  2. Foraging bees use stop signals to communicate conditions of food source overcrowding at a particular foraging site.

  3. Guard bees use stop signals to communicate when the nest is under attack. This signal seeks to keep vulnerable bees in the safety of the nest during the period of attack.

  4. The queen secretes pheromones that inhibit reproduction among all bees other than selected drones.

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'An' as house chasing honey bees additionally called as working drones as per the section essential capacity is to watch the home, which incorporates creating inhibitory flags or stop signals while experiencing hazardous conditions or life forms or assaults by different predators.

So, the correct option is 'House-hunting bees speed up nest site decision-making with stop signals that inhibit recruitment for competing nest sites.'

If the source is opposite to the direction of sun, then honey bee will convethe direction by

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  1. Clockwise round dance

  2. Upright down tail wagging dance

  3. Anticlockwise round dance

  4. Opposite to (b)

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The pitch of sound produced, speed of the dance and the wagging of tail indicate the distance of source. If during this dance tail wagging is directly vertically upwards it indicates that the source is present towards the sun. If tail wagging is vertically downwards it indicates that the source is present opposite to the sun.

Males of honey bee colony are 

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  1. drones

  2. workers

  3. soldiers

  4. draughts.

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Drones are the male bees of the honey colony. They do not involve in collection of nector and pollen. But plays a contributing role in temperature regulation of the hive. Their main role is to mate with queen during breeding season. 

Chief pollinators of agricultural crops are.

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  1. Butterflies

  2. Bees

  3. Moths

  4. Beetles

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Correct Option: B

Keeping beehives in crop fields during flowering period increases __________________.

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  1. Crop yield

  2. Honey yield

  3. Weeds yield

  4. Both (a) and (b)

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Keeping beehives in crop fields during flowering period increases pollination efficiency and thus, improves the yield. It is beneficial both from the point of view of increased crop yield and honey yield.