Question

In which part of the body, honey bees keep the nectar for some time?
A. Crop
B. mouth
C. Gizzard
D. Pollen basket

Answer 1

Hint: In apis culture that means in honey bee culture nectar is the main purpose of the harvester, bcoz honey bees collect honey from the flower and store it in their body parts or their hives.so for nectar harvesting some foreign breeds are mated.

Complete answer:
Generally, Apis indica is used for Apis culture, because they have high copulating and nectar storing capacity. So after collecting nectar from flowers they store it as honey in the extra stomach which is present in their body parts, called a crop.

Hence, the correct answer is option (A).

Additional information:
After fertilization, the queen lays about 2000/eggs/ days. One egg in each brood cell. The egg hatches in about 3 days. After hatching a white larva (Grub) emerges which is fed by workers (Nurse bees).
From the 4th day, all the worker bees provide food which consists of pollen & honey to all baby bees.
From the 7th day, Royal jelly is secreted from the maxillary glands of worker bees. Larva, pupa & queen bee are fed on this royal jelly. From 12th to 18th day, secretion of wax from wax glands also starts.
Eggs destined to become drones are unfertilized & are laid in cells of slightly greater diameter than those of workers. Drone develops parthenogenetically (Arrhenotoky) from an unfertilized egg.
The egg hatched in the royal chamber is looked after by workers &z fed with royal jelly so that it converts into a queen. The time required to produce a queen from egg to adult is about 15-16 days, for a worker 21 days, & for a drone 24 days.

Nectar collection & Honey preparation:-
-Sucrose of nectar + Invertase --> Glucose + Fructose
-Nectar is stored in the crop
-The extra amount of water is evaporated by the fanners bees.
-This concentrated product is called Honey.

Note: The nectar only stored in crops or extra stomach and mouth has the only function of collecting it from flowers. A pollen basket is the site of storage of pollen grain which moves from one flower to another for pollination by the pollinators bees.