Honeybees live in social groups consisting of a queen, up to seve...

Question

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?

In the experiment described in Question 14, the researchers dissolved the queen pheromone in diethyl ether, a chemical that helps volatilize the pheromone, making it easier for the workers to detect it in the air. The control treatment consisted of plain diethyl ether. Why did they use this as the control, instead of simply not exposing the workers to any chemical?

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video in a beehive. The queen bees release blank pheromones while the workers release blank pheromones. What in order to solve this question? I want you to think about the roles of these queen bees and the workers in the beehive. Well, one of the roles that these workers have is that they alarm the beehive if any threats or present. Now, how do they do this while they're going to be releasing these molecules that serve as signaling molecules to other bees in the beehive? And these are called alarm for months. Now, another name for these alarm pheromones is going to be really sir pheromones which will be the fireman's that these worker bees are releasing in the beehive. Now think about the role of the queen bee. One of the roles that they have is to rule or to maintain order. So in order to do this, they're going to be released in these behavioral pheromones which are going to affect the behavior of all the bees in the beehive in order again to maintain order. Another name for these behavioral four months is going to be primer for months, which is going to be what goes here. So in a bee hive, queen bee is released. Primary pheromones. While the workers release release pheromones, This is going to be represented by answer choice A which will be the final answer to a question. I really hope this video helped you and I hope to see you on the next one

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