IBA Apprentice Guidelines & Exam

Deadline is midnight April 14, 2023.

Print the application, fill it out completely, and email to GoIBA@yahoo.com on or before midnight April 14, 2023, scan or take a clear photograph , and

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Notification of Applicants

Selected applicants will be notified April 22, 2023 in the Illiana Beekeepers Alliance Members Only Facebook page.

Mentor Group Guidelines

Read the guidelines below. You will be expected to adhere to them.

Mentor's Apprentice Exam

1. What stage of a bees life is this?

3. What does the comb contain that these bees are on?

1. What stage of a bees life is this?

A. Morphic Insectovia
B. Larva
C. Egg
D. Purple

2. What stage of a bees life is this?

3. What does the comb contain that these bees are on?

1. What stage of a bees life is this?

A. Larva
B. Egg
C. Adult
D. infected

3. What does the comb contain that these bees are on?

A. Brood
B. Larva
C. Honey
D. AFB

4. These are examples of what?

6. What is the parasite in this bee?

3. What does the comb contain that these bees are on?

A. Bees clustering
B. Honey cells
C. Queen cells
D. irregular placement

5. What is this parasite?

6. What is the parasite in this bee?

A. Varroa Destructor
B. Common bedbug
C. American Foul Brood
D. American Dog Tick

6. What is the parasite in this bee?

A. Varroa Destructor
B. Common bee aphid
C. Brown tick
D. Newly hatched baby bee

7. This is an image of?

9. Which statement is true about honey?

7. This is an image of?

A. Capped Brood
B. American Foul Brood
C. European Foul Brood
D. Honey

8. This is a sign of?

9. Which statement is true about honey?

7. This is an image of?

A. Fertile Queen
B. Overflowing Honey
C. Laying Worker
D. Queen Cells

9. Which statement is true about honey?

A. It can be made into Mead
B. It contain glucose & fructose
C. Risk of fermentation is reduced when its water content is below 18%
D. All of the above

10. This is an image of?

11. Which statement is true?

9. Which statement is true about honey?

A. Normal brood

B. Hornets

C. Queen cup/cell

D. Drone comb

11. Which statement is true?

A. Varroa can spread disease & infect a hive to death.
B. Varroa is readily treated with Fumigilin G
C. The impact of Varroa is insignificant
D. You should never do mite counts unless you see them on the back of the bees.

12. What is this an image of?

11. Which statement is true?

A. Hybrid Drone
B. A large worker bee
C. Queen
D. Cockroach in the hive

13. Which example is the proper installation of queen?

14. Bee sting can cause reactions, how should you respond if it happens?

A. Remove any queen cells a day ahead of time, and verify hive is queenless and has not gone laying worker. Introduce queen in cage on frames, observe response, if good, remove candy side cork, check in a few days to see if she has been released.
B. Open queen cage and put in entrance reducer, rinse queen with syrup, leave in hive until she eats through the cork.
C. Verify hive is queenless, remove candy side cork, put queen cage on landing board, check in 10 days
D. Verify hive has queen, open cage, release queen.

14. Bee sting can cause reactions, how should you respond if it happens?

A. Ignore it and it will go away

B. First signs of anaphylactic shock or other life threatening symptoms call 911. Seek medical help immediately

C. Ignore it and it will go away

D. Ignore it and it will go away

15. Bees usually fill a 10 frame brood box like this:

14. Bee sting can cause reactions, how should you respond if it happens?

15. Bees usually fill a 10 frame brood box like this:

A. Alternating brood and honey frames
B. 1-2 outer frames on each end contain honey, pollen, and drone brood and the center 6-7 frames are the brood nest.
C. The left side is the brood and right side is the honey
D. They checker-board the frames

16. Why do we put hives on stands?

18. We try to avoid this event from happening. What is it?

15. Bees usually fill a 10 frame brood box like this:

A. They fly better
B. It allow air to flow around the box to cook the brood
C. To defend against nuisances like ants and skunks.
D. Bees like to be high up in trees

17. What is on this bees legs

18. We try to avoid this event from happening. What is it?

A. Tumors
B. baby bees
C. Varroa Mites
D. Pollen

18. We try to avoid this event from happening. What is it?

A. Mating flights
B. Torpid clusters
C. Swarms
D. Hive combines

19. This is an example of?

20. The primary role of the drone is to collect nectar because they are larger and can carry more.

A. Workers on Nectar
B. Drones on Nectar
C. Queens on Nectar
D. Workers on Brood

20. The primary role of the drone is to collect nectar because they are larger and can carry more.

A. True
B. False

21. Identify the contents of this comb.

20. The primary role of the drone is to collect nectar because they are larger and can carry more.

22. Which is the Illiana Beekeepers Alliance motto:

A. Brood
B. Honey
C. Pollen
D. Nectar

22. Which is the Illiana Beekeepers Alliance motto:

23.Which of the following best describes your Mentor:

22. Which is the Illiana Beekeepers Alliance motto:

A. The Illiana Beekeepers Alliance is an all inclusive and education based club focused on applying science, technology, and mentoring to create and maintain generations of innovative, knowledgeable beekeepers; making better beekeepers through mentorship to improve local bee stock.
B. Bee lazy. Take their Honey. Buy bees every spring.
C. Make honey get money.
D. Save the honey bees because they are endangered.

23.Which of the following best describes your Mentor:

A. An IBA member that is an unpaid volunteer
B. Your personal slave
C. The person I call to lift my boxes.
D. 1-800 24 hr Bee Tech support.

The Illiana Beekeepers Alliance is an all inclusive and education based club focused on applying science, technology, and mentoring to create and maintain generations of innovative, knowledgeable beekeepers; making better beekeepers through mentor-ship to improve local bee stock.

IBA Apprentice Guidelines & Exam

Deadline is midnight April 14, 2023.

Notification of Applicants

Mentor Group Guidelines

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Mentor's Apprentice Exam

1. What stage of a bees life is this?

3. What does the comb contain that these bees are on?

1. What stage of a bees life is this?

2. What stage of a bees life is this?

3. What does the comb contain that these bees are on?

1. What stage of a bees life is this?

3. What does the comb contain that these bees are on?

3. What does the comb contain that these bees are on?

3. What does the comb contain that these bees are on?

4. These are examples of what?

6. What is the parasite in this bee?

3. What does the comb contain that these bees are on?

5. What is this parasite?

6. What is the parasite in this bee?

6. What is the parasite in this bee?

6. What is the parasite in this bee?

6. What is the parasite in this bee?

6. What is the parasite in this bee?

7. This is an image of?

9. Which statement is true about honey?

7. This is an image of?

8. This is a sign of?

9. Which statement is true about honey?

7. This is an image of?

9. Which statement is true about honey?

9. Which statement is true about honey?

9. Which statement is true about honey?

10. This is an image of?

11. Which statement is true?

9. Which statement is true about honey?

11. Which statement is true?

11. Which statement is true?

11. Which statement is true?

12. What is this an image of?

11. Which statement is true?

11. Which statement is true?

13. Which example is the proper installation of queen?

14. Bee sting can cause reactions, how should you respond if it happens?

14. Bee sting can cause reactions, how should you respond if it happens?

14. Bee sting can cause reactions, how should you respond if it happens?

14. Bee sting can cause reactions, how should you respond if it happens?

14. Bee sting can cause reactions, how should you respond if it happens?

15. Bees usually fill a 10 frame brood box like this:

14. Bee sting can cause reactions, how should you respond if it happens?

15. Bees usually fill a 10 frame brood box like this:

16. Why do we put hives on stands?

18. We try to avoid this event from happening. What is it?

15. Bees usually fill a 10 frame brood box like this:

17. What is on this bees legs

18. We try to avoid this event from happening. What is it?

18. We try to avoid this event from happening. What is it?

18. We try to avoid this event from happening. What is it?

18. We try to avoid this event from happening. What is it?

18. We try to avoid this event from happening. What is it?

19. This is an example of?

20. The primary role of the drone is to collect nectar because they are larger and can carry more.

20. The primary role of the drone is to collect nectar because they are larger and can carry more.

20. The primary role of the drone is to collect nectar because they are larger and can carry more.

20. The primary role of the drone is to collect nectar because they are larger and can carry more.

20. The primary role of the drone is to collect nectar because they are larger and can carry more.

21. Identify the contents of this comb.

20. The primary role of the drone is to collect nectar because they are larger and can carry more.

22. Which is the Illiana Beekeepers Alliance motto:

22. Which is the Illiana Beekeepers Alliance motto:

23.Which of the following best describes your Mentor:

22. Which is the Illiana Beekeepers Alliance motto:

23.Which of the following best describes your Mentor:

23.Which of the following best describes your Mentor:

23.Which of the following best describes your Mentor: