Question

Based upon your observations of honey bee come up with one interesting question about it, and a corresponding hypothesis. Briefly describe how you might test this hypothesis, and what kind of results would support your hypothesis.

Answer 1

Hypothesis about honeybee: Honey bees are responsible for about 75% of pollination that occur naturally.

This hypothesis can be tested by the following experiment,

Two square land plots are taken for this experiment. Similar kind of vegetation is present in both the plots. One of the plot is covered with seives that prevent the entry of honeybees while the other is kept open. Honey bee colony are placed nearby at equal distance from both the plots. That two places are followed up for a year and the total number of new offsprings present in both the blocks are compared.

The results would be more number of offsprings in the plot that was kept open than in the plot that was covered preventing the entry of honeybees.