What Is It Called When Bees Suddenly and Mysteriously Abandon

question 28

Multiple Choice

What is it called when bees suddenly and mysteriously abandon their queen and many living larvae, despite abundant stored pollen and honey?

• A) colony emigration
• B) colony immigration
• C) colony collapse disorder
• D) colony convergence
• E) colony divergence

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Definitions:

Poisson Process

A statistical process that models the occurrence of events within a fixed interval of time or space, assuming that these events happen with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Continuous Random Variable

A variable that can take on an infinite number of values within a given range, representing measurements.

Binomial Distribution

An analytical distribution showing the probability of a variable assuming either of two separate states within a specified number of observations.

Poisson Distribution

A statistical distribution illustrating the likelihood of a specific count of occurrences within a definite time or space span, provided that these occurrences happen at a consistent, known rate and are independent of the duration since the preceding occurrence.