1. Explain the differences between a pollen supplement and a pollen substitute.


2. What is the first step in requeening a colony?


3. Name two advantages of having marked queens in your colonies.


4. Describe how to stop robbing in the apiary once it has started.


5. Describe "honey bound".


6. When burr comb is built between supers and connects the top bars of one super with the bottom bars of another, it is an indication that additional supers are needed. (True/False)

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1. A pollen substitute is a pollen source such as soybean flour, powdered skim milk, brewer's yeast, or a mixture of these with pollen added to them. The natural pollen attracts the bees so they will make use of the protein source. A pollen substitute is a protein source containing all the essential nutrients for the bees but not pollen.


2. Finding the old queen and killing or removing her from the colony to be requeened.


3. Honey bee queens are marked for the purpose of:
   
   1. quickly locating them within the colony;
   2. recording their age;
   3. identifying genetic lines or suppliers; and
   4. knowing when natural queen replacement or supersedure has occurred.


4. In order to stop robbing in the apiary once it has started, all hive manipulations should cease. Reduce the entrances and seal all cracks or openings in the hives being robbed and in the weaker colonies in the apiary. A reduced entrance should make it easier for the bees to defend their hive. Placing handfuls of grass at the hive entrance is a quick way to reduce entrances when entrance reducers are not available.


5. Honey Bound: during a honey flow, colonies need more space initially for handling the incoming nectar than for stage of honey. Failure to provide adequate handling and storage space results in the colony filling the brood nest with honey, thus restricting the queen's laying space. This condition is referred to as the colony being "honey bound".


6. False When burr comb is built between supers, it is an indication that bee space (1/4-3/8 inch) was not properly constructed. The caps between top bars of the lower super and bottom bars of the upper super is greater than 3/8 inch.