Chapter 44 Question 16 - Case Study How do pheromones keep a hive of honeybees b

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Chapter 44 Question 16 - Case Study How do pheromones keep a hive of honeybees buzzing? Honeybees live in social groups consisting of a queen, up to several hundred male drones, and thousands of infertile female workers. The drones mate with the queen only, and the workers protect the hive, forage, and feed and groom the queen. The health of the hive depends on the female workers performing these duties instead of reproducing. What roles do pheromones play in maintaining a functional beehive? Part A Researchers observed that the queen produces a pheromone that is very attractive to both drones and workers Beekeepers carefully manage their beehives by adding mated queens, drones, and workers at appropriate times. However, sometimes the bees abandon a new hive before the queen can mature, and the result is inefficient hive management and honey production. Suggest a potential use of queen pheromone in controlling this problem. Beekeepers starting a new hive can rise the queen in any old hive and when it would be mature, they can place it in a new hive. It would produce the pheromone, and this would prevent bees from abandoning it. roduce th Beekeepers starting a new hive can place a mature queen along with a new one. The mature queen w when another queen would become mature, the first queen should be removed piherom one o main an e i and Beekeepers starting a new hive can add a strip of material treated with queen pheromone to that hive to prevent bees from abandoning it before the queen is mature All of the above are appropriate for starting a new hive Submit My Answers Give Up

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Ans-16 all the above options can be used.

However the strip having pheromone is most popular method applied by beekeepers but other options can also be used.

Ans-15 because it was present as a solvent in the queen pheromone treatment. It was made to exclude the possible effect of diethyl ether on bees ovarian development.

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