NAME: Start: EAS Master Beekeeper Lab Exam 2015 Ontario The EAS lab exam contains 20 STATIONS each with one or more items. There are questions related to the items at each station worth a total of 5 points each station, total exam value 100 Pts. Passing grade = 85 Points. Read the questions carefully. Do not assume anything and answer the question asked. You may touch, pick up and closely examine each of the items do NOT remove any labels (A,B C etc) or move any item to another station unless given permission to do so. IF question, item or anything is unclear, Ask for Clarification. USE BACK OF SHEET IF MORE ROOM NEEDED STATION 1: Photo of chemical treatment & package of chemical 1A. In photo, beekeeper is inserting Apivar strip between frames. How many strips should be used in a brood area of 10 frames in 2 standard Langstroth boxes 2? 2A. This treatment should remain in a hive for _42 days but not more than _56 days. 3A. If you then wish to super a treated colony, how long do you need wait to super? _14 days 4A. What is the actual common name of Apivar Amitraz 5A. How expensive is this treatment? $_8 /hive. STATION 2: What in the world? 2A. What is shown in this photo? homemade water feeder 2B. How does this relate to honey bees? _bees need water to cool hive. 2C. Use item illustrated to answer this question: Bees use up to a 1 gallon (enter amount) of _water (what material) per colony/day in hot weather for cooling purposes. STATION 3: There are a selection of chemicals with labels before you. 3A. Identify all that are a gel _apigard 3B. Identify which one(s) have an essential oil as part of their contents. apiguard, Api Life var _ 3C. When is best time to use chemical 3C? _spring, later fall 3D. Identify which one(s) are acid to treat varroa mites: MAQS 3E. Before you would open, which container(s) would you need chemical resistant gloves? _ALL
STATION 4: A collection of some bee pests/pest control materials 4A. (2 pts) What bee pest might device 4A be used against? bee robbers What is its name? robbing screen 4B. (2 pts) ID pest of 4B waxmoth. Describe two effective ways to control this pest: freeze frame and fumigation w PDB 4C.What is item 4C used to do? sugar shake/alcohol wash STATION 5: Photo 5A shows a field test on a decomposing brood cell. 5A. (3 pts) What is the name of this field test? ropy test. It is designed to examine the decomposing larva for what condition? _AFB. Could a decomposing drone larva substitute for the worker in this test? YES or NO? (CIRCLE ONE) 5B. What type of pathogen causes this disease (assuming a positive test above) _bacteria 5C. Name a brood disease caused by a different pathogen (other than 5b answer) and ID the pathogen _Sacbrood-virus; EFB-bacteria;chalbrood-fungus ` STATION 6: There are unrelated items at this station. 6A. (2 pts) What is Item 6A? _stool Give two reasons why this might be used by you in the apiary: comfort and tools 6B. Why would you use frame 6B (be specific)? trap mites in drone cells During the bee season when would you use it? spring 6C. (2 pts) : Some individuals don t like to use frame 6C. What could you do to make it more acceptable to the bees? _coat with beeswax This frame when cells are drawn is very useful to see _eggs/brood Explain your answer? _show up better against black
STATION 7: There are 3 frames at this station 7A. Is there a frame with disease symptoms before you? YES_ If yes, which one? _Chalkbrood 7B. What is name of frame 7B (be specific). Hoffman self-spacing 7C. What type of foundation was used with frame 7C? _crimp-wired standard 7D. What is shown at Marker D? queen cup 7E. What is shown at Marker E? punch out corner - STATION 8. Two common tools every beekeeper should own are shown 8A. (2 pts) Give two practical uses for item 8A 1) lift frames and 2) separate boxes. 8B. (2 pts) Item 8B is incomplete what else is needed? fuel & lighter. Once functioning how long should this item be useful? 10-15 minutes 8C. Name a practical tool one can substitute for 8A _screwdriver_ and 8B: _water mister/cigar STATION 9: There are 3 unrelated items at this station. 9A. (2 pts) What is name of 9A _propolis screen and when might it be used in the apiary? _summer/fall 9B. (2 pts) What is name of 9B _Triangle escape board and where would it be placed in a bee hive? _beneath supers 9C. Why would you use 8C? _mite monitoring/control STATION 10: There are 3 photos on unrelated topics 10A. (2 pts) Photo 10A. There are flowers in this composite photo taken with 2 different types of film what is being illustrated? bees see UV but humans don t -_ 10B. (2 pts) Photo 10B: What behavior is the bee doing in this photo? _scenting. We might witness this behavior when bees are doing what necessary hive task? _orientation 10C. Photo 10C: What bee caste is shown in this internal photo? _queen
STATION 11: Items before you are all related. 11A. (2 pts) What are the 3 items of 11A used for? _queen rearing/introducing Can you specifically name 1 of these 3 items? _homemade, JZ BZ cage, Benton mailing cage 11B. How are the two items of 11B related to the 3 items of 11A? _queen introd cages 11C. Would item 11C be used before or after items 11A? _Before 11D. What specific objective might use of one of the items of 11A, one of the 11B items and item IIC be used to do in your beekeeping replace qn of colony STATION 12. There are honey products before you. 12A. How specifically would you harvest the bee product of product 16A? _pollen trap 12B. What would be a common use for product 16B? _eye/ear/nose/throat 12C. If wished to make a soap would C be best ingredient NO 12D. (2 pts). What are the 2 major ingredients of 12D: 1) _simple sugars 2) _water STATION 13 Unassembled Frame with frame assembly items 13A. (2 pts) Do these parts correctly fit together? YES or NO. If YES what do we call this type of frame. If No what part is incorrect? _wedge top of top bar 13B. Upon frame assembly what might part 13B be used for? _ eyelet or support pin. 13C. (2 pts) Could this Small Cell Foundation (13C) be used for this frame YES or NO? Explain your yes or no answer _either would be difficult to secure in frame
STATION 14: There is a frame + photo of another frame before you. 14A. What causes damage on frame 14A wax moth 14B.In photo 14B, what bee season would this photo likely have been taken? _fall 14C. What is shown at Marker C of frame and photo? _bee bread 14D. (2 pts) Is the frame in photo at risk for the damage shown on frame 14A if it is removed from a colony? YES or NO. Explain your answer _brood frame STATION 15. Some common bee flowers 15A. Identify one of these flowers. 15 is 15B. Is the major flower(s) you rely on for a nectar flow here? Explain 15C. (2 pts). There are two common fall flowers most beekeepers rely on for winter feed what are they? and. Is either here? YES or NO 15D. Are any of these flowers an agricultural crop? Which one(s). What is the greatest danger of seeking to keep bees near a flowering agricultural plant? - STATION 16: Examine the 2 frames 16A&16B before you. DO NOT move markers (if unclear what markers designate ask for clarification). 16A. (2 pts) Which frame, 16A or 16B, shows a brood disease? _A. ID the disease: _Sacbrood_ 16 B. What is the identity of item at marker A on frame 16A? _cutback queen cell 16C. Where in mid-august colony would you likely find frame 16B? adj to brood 16D. What is the condition at marker B on Frame 16B? capped honey cell STATION 17. There is frame from the brood nest before you and a photo of Bee Brood 17A. Do you see eggs in the brood frame? YES Where? _top left 17B. (2pts) In the photo, what is approximate age of the brood stage in cell 17B? _12-24 hour. Is this the best brood stage to seek to graph into a plastic cup to start a queen cell? _YES Explain? best age to transfer 17C. ON the brood frame, what is in cell 17C? egg 17D. What is at marker 17D? capped honey cell STATION 18. Bee apparatus 18A. Specifically as possible ID the apparatus at 18A: refractometer 18B. Specifically as possible what is 18B? _8-way bee escape
18C. Now (mid-august) what specifically would you do with this piece of bee equipment? _remove 18D. (2 pts) How and when and for what reason would you use this piece of apparatus: _bank qns_ STATION 19. Bee Equipment some necessary some extra 19A. What is 19A and when would you use it? _super 19B. ID 19B and its best use in the apiary pollen trap 19C. What is 19C? chalkbrood mummies 19D. (2 pts) When is equipment 19D best used and name the months when you would use it: capping scratcher spring to remove drones/summer in uncapping honey cells STATION 20. Bee equipment to accomplish specific management objectives. 20A. ID 20A: homemade hivetop feeder 20B. (2 pts) Explain how 20B would be used in your apiary: division board feeder 20C. (2 pts). What is approximate cost of 20C $ 12-24. If you wanted to substitute something less expensive what would you use as an alternative? examination gloves BONUS 1. Varroa destructor 2. Frass from chewed newspaper 3. Knapweed