Which of the following statements are correct? In Honey bees 1. Males are haploid. 2. Workers are sterile and diploid. 3. Queen develops from diploid larvae that fed on royal jelly. 4. Honey is collected/made by males. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Which of the following statements are correct? In Honey bees 1. Males are haploid. 2. Workers are sterile and diploid. 3. Queen develops from diploid larvae that fed on royal jelly. 4. Honey is collected/made by males. Select the correct answer using the code given below: Correct Answer 1, 2 and 3 only

The correct answer is option 3

Apiculture or Beekeeping

  • Apiculture or Beekeeping is the production of honey and the wax by care and management of honey bees.
  • In apiculture, bees are bred commercially in apiaries, where a lot of beehives can be placed.
  • Apiaries can be set up in areas where there are sufficient flowering plants available.
  • Working at Beehive
  1. Sterile diploid females as workers. Hence statement 2 is correct.
  2. Worker bees do all of the works from tending to, feeding young larvae, gathering water, pollen, and nectar, making wax comb, making honey, and guarding the hive. Hence statement 4 is incorrect.
  3. Fertile haploid males as drones. Hence statement 1 is correct.
  4. The only purpose of the drone is to mate with a virgin queen even he can not feed himself.
  5. Haploid that is, they have only half the genes possessed by the queen, all of them derived from the mother.
  6. Diploid drones (biparental males) develop from fertilized eggs. Diploid drones do not survive until the end of larval development. The larvae of diploid drones are eaten by workers within a few hours after hatching from the egg.
  7. Both haploid and diploid individuals formed as a result of incomplete(cyclic) parthenogenesis i.e. reproduction from an ovum without fertilization.
  8. fertilized eggs (zygote) give rise to queen and workers (both are females) by the process of sexual reproduction and unfertilized eggs (ova) develop into drones (males) by the process of parthenogenesis.
  9. The difference between a worker and the queen bee is made three days after the egg transforms into larvae and six days after the egg is laid in the beehive.
    • The “royal jelly” is fed to all the larvae.
    • The larva sheds skin multiple times throughout this stage.
    • Later the royal jelly is fed only to the female larvae, which eventually becomes a queen bee. Hence statement 3 is correct. 

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