Honey Bees

1. By: Megan Smith Honey Bees

2. What are the different types of a honey bee?.......3 • What is the job of a worker bee?........4 • What is the job of a drone bee?........5 • What is the job of a queen bee?.........6 • What do honey bees eat?.............7 • Where do honey bees live?..............8 • What do honey bees provide humans with?............9 • What is pollination?............10 • How do honey bees help pollination?............11 • What are the different characteristics of a honey bee?...........12 • What is the life cycle of a honey bee?............13 • What is the hive composed of?.............14 • How do honey bees communicate?...........15 • How do honey bees protect there self?........16 • Glossary ……………17 • Index…………..18 Table of Contents

3. What are the different types of a honey bee? First there is a queen bee then there is a worker bee and last but not least there is a drone bee.

4. What is the job of a worker bee? During the first two days of a workers bees life it cleans it’s cell. When they are three days old they feed the drones and larva . Workers have glands that create wax. They shape the wax into the comb. During their last few days in the hive they watch the entrance. When the worker bee has ultraviolet vision which allows it to see patterns on flower petals which attracts the workers to them.

5. What is the job of the drone bee? • The drones have big, strong wings. They make up 10% of the hive colony. Then they use their strong wings for the mating flight. After the mating flight, the workers take good care of the drones. Before winter, the workers bite off the drones wings, and kick them out of the hive.

6. What is the job of a queen bee? • First the queen lays all of the eggs. For a queen to be born the workers feed the larva Royal jelly. If a new queen is born, the old queen will kill it or leave the hive colony.

7. What do honey bees eat? • Bees store nectar, the colony principal source of carbohydrates in the so –called honey stomach in their abdomens. When they return to the hive, they chew up and spit out the nectar to middle-aged workers which either hand out the nectar for direct use or route it into honey. Nurse bees-those attention the litter of unborn workers-will either to weaken honey to feed the litter or on hot days, to cool through evaporations.

8. Where do honey bees live? • Honey bees live in a hive. The hive is sometimes located in the trees.

9. What do honey bees provide humans with? • Honey bees provide us with delicious honey and pollination.

10. What is pollination? Pollination is the course by which pollen from the anthers of a flower is moved to the shame of the same flower or of another flower. This enables fertilizer which results in growth of seeds from the flower. Most plants need outside helping the other bees move pollen, such as wind insects like bees and butterflies.

11. How do honey bees help pollination? • Because bees always go to get nectar to make honey, they allow plants to create the fruits and nuts we enjoy by carrying pollen from one flower to the next.

12. What are the different characteristics of a honey bee? • There is a head, thorax, abdomen, antennas, legs, composed eyes, pollen baskets, and wings.

13. What is the life cycle of a honey bee? • First a queen lays soft white eggs in the comb. The egg stage takes place during days 1 through 3. After that in three days, the egg hatches into larva. Workers feed it bee milk and bee bread. It spins a cocoon around itself. The larva stage takes place during days 4 through 9. Then in the cocoon, the larva turns into a pupa. It now has eyes, wings, and legs. It looks more like a bee now. This stage takes place during days 10 through 23. Finally it is fully grown. The bee chews its way out of the cell. It becomes an adult on days 16 through 24.

14. What is the hive composed of? • Middle aged worker bees are in charge for building the combs. A natural nest will have roughly 100,000 cells half a dozen comb, whose total surface area will be about 27 square feet. It takes more than two and a half pounds of bee wax to create such a structure. A colony needs those 100,000 cells to store more than 40 pounds of honey it requires to survive a nursery full of space for the roughly 20,000 young that over winter bees will care for in the spring.

15. How do honey bee communicate? • Honey bees have a strange form of communication known as the “waggle” dance. When other bees see them doing it they start doing it too.

16. How do honey bees protect their self? • Bees have strong army of defense against each other. They have more than just their stingers. For outside threats, the bees rely, first they protect their nest. Guard bees guarding the entrance quickly attack strange bees.

17. Provide: To give. Characteristics: The parts of their body. Composed: What something is made of. Communicate: To talk to one another. Protect: To keep from harm. Located: Where something is found. Glossary

18. Different types…………3 • Jobs……………4 5 and 6 • Eat………….7 • Live………….8 • Provide humans with……….9 • Pollination……………..10 and 11 • Characteristics…………..12 • Life cycle……………13 • Dying out…………14 • Hive composed……….15 • Communication……………16 • Defense……..............17 Index

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