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Our  Buzz about Bees primary resource introduces children to bees with seven mind-blowing facts about these amazing insects. How many times a minute does a bee beat its wings? What unusual use did the Ancient Greeks have for bee venom? Up to how many honeybees may live in a single hive…?

This primary resource can be used to introduce children to bees and other pollinating insects – as a printed handout for each pupil to review and annotate, or for display on the interactive whiteboard for class discussion.

Activity : The pupils could use this primary resource as a template for making their own ‘ Buzz About Bees ‘ poster, featuring 5-7 facts sourced from independent or group research. Alternatively, divide the class into groups and get each group to produce a fact-based, colourful poster on a different insect (perhaps specifically pollinating insects). The posters could be used as part of a classroom display.

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This Animals primary resource  assists with teaching the following  Key Stage 1 Science   (Year 1) objectives  from the  National Curriculum :  

Pupils should be taught to:

• identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores

Pupils might work scientifically by: using their observations to compare and contrast animals at first hand or through videos and photographs, describing how they identify and group them; grouping animals according to what they eat; and using their senses to compare different textures, sounds and smells.

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Pupils should be taught to:   

• identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other  
• describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

Pupils should be introduced to the idea that all living things have certain characteristics that are essential for keeping them alive and healthy. They should raise and answer questions that help them to become familiar with the life processes that are common to all living things. Pupils should be introduced to the terms ‘habitat’ (a natural environment or home of a variety of plants and animals) and ‘micro-habitat’ (a very small habitat, for example for woodlice under stones, logs or leaf litter).

National Curriculum Lower  Key Stage 2 Science (Year 3) objective :

• identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat  
• Compare and contrast the diets of different animals (including their pets) and decide ways of grouping them according to what they eat.
• identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers
• explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

National Curriculum Lower Key Stage 2 Science (Year 4) objective :

• recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
• explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment

This Animals primary resource  assists with teaching the following  Sciences First level objectives  from the  Scottish Curriculum for Excellence :

• I can explore examples of food chains and show an appreciation of how animals and plants depend on each other for food.

Scottish Curriculum for Excellence Second level Sciences objectives :

• I can identify and classify examples of living things, past and present, to help me appreciate their diversity. I can relate physical and behavioural characteristics to their survival or extinction.
• I can use my knowledge of the interactions and energy flow between plants and animals in ecosystems, food chains and webs. 

Scottish Curriculum for Excellence Third level Sciences objectives :

• I can sample and identify living things from different habitats to compare their biodiversity and can suggest reasons for their distribution.
• I have collaborated on investigations into the process of photosynthesis and I can demonstrate my understanding of why plants are vital to sustaining life on Earth

Scottish Curriculum for Excellence Fourth level Sciences objectives :

• I understand how animal and plant species depend on each other and how living things are adapted for survival. 

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Save Our Bees

Aimed at primary level, this activity pack contains nine activities about bees. The activities link to the curriculum areas of identifying plants and animals, pollination, lifecycles, food chains and habitats. They include: identifying bees and bee pollinated plants, the factors which affect growth and decline in bee populations, making bee nests, a role-play about population decline and making bee puppets. Detailed background information about bees and their conservation is provided along with notes on running the activities and links to further resources. This resource is part of the British Science Association’s National Science & Engineering Week activity pack series.

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World Bee Day

Use this lesson plan with your primary learners to help make them aware of the importance of bees as pollinators.

Introduction

This lesson plan helps raise awareness of the importance of bees as pollinators. It is based on the United Nations' World Bee Day, which takes place on 20 May annually https://www.un.org/en/observances/bee-day/background , but it can be used at any time of year. World Bee Day aims to show how important bees are as pollinators for ensuring the survival of wild plants and farm crops. It draws attention to the environmental problems that threaten bees. 

The first part of this lesson is based on a video which provides facts about bees, outlines the dangers they face and suggests what we can do to help. The second part focuses on the logo for World Bee Day. Learners think of new slogans and design a new logo to promote this special day.

• To raise awareness of environmental issues connected with bees
• To build learners' vocabulary for bees, pollination and environmental issues
• To develop listening comprehension skills
• To develop creativity and design skills

Age and level:

Primary (8–12 years) at CEFR level A2 and above

60–90 minutes approximately

The lesson plan and student materials can be downloaded below in PDF format.

• lesson plan for face-to-face teaching
• lesson plan for remote teaching
• example new logo for face-to-face teaching
• presentation slides for remote teaching

You will also need:

• YouTube video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQr1NPwBTFQ – transcript available from https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/world-bee-day/13343076
• original World Bee Day logo from  https://www.worldbeeday.org/en/toolkit.html#logo
• coloured pens/pencils and paper, or access to a design tool like Canva https://www.canva.com/

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Students investigate the three types of honey bees in a colony, identify their roles, and recognize honey bees as part of a community that works together.  Grades K-2

Estimated Time

Materials needed.

• Honey samples

Activity 1: Bee Communities

• The Life and Times of the Honeybee by Charles Micucci
• Honeybee Worksheet
• Amazing Bees Online Poster
• Venn Diagram or  Top Hat Graphic Organizer

Activity 2: Making H oney

• The Beeman by Laurie Krebs
• Small cartons or containers of milk
• 3-ounce cups, 1 per student when the class is divided in half
• Instant pudding mix
• Spoon or stir stick
• Can of whipped cream 

Activity 3: A Day in the Life of a Honey Bee

• KWL  Chart
• Letter Recognition Sheet 1
• Letter Recognition Sheet 2
• Dry erase boards, 1 per student in small groups
• Dry erase markers, 1 per student in small groups

brood: the offspring produced by the colony (eggs and larvae)

cell: a hexagonal wax chamber built from beeswax for brood rearing and storage of honey and pollen

drone: a male honeybee that is produced from an unfertilized egg

egg: laid by a queen bee, this is the first stage in the life of a honeybee

enzyme: protein catalyst, which speeds up a specific chemical reaction

evaporate: turn from liquid to gas

hive: a home to a colony of bees

nectar: a sweet liquid secreted by flowers

pollen: the fine, powder-like material produced by the anthers of flowering plants

pollination: the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant; the spreading of pollen by insects, birds, bats, and the wind between flowering plants

pollinator: agent that moves pollen resulting in the pollination of flowers

proboscis: straw-like tongue used by honey bees to suck nectar or honey

queen: a female bee that lays eggs

regurgitate: bring swallowed food up again to the mouth

workers: female bees who build and guard the hive, look after the queen and gather food

Did You Know?

• Did you know that a honey bee can fly around 15 mph?
• Honey bees gather 10 pounds of nectar to make one pound of honey.
• A foraging honey bee can carry 80% of their weight in pollen or nectar.
• Honey bees make up 80% of all pollinators.
• Honey bees use several dances in the hive to communicate the location of nectar and water to other bees. One well known dance is called the waggle dance.
• There is only one queen per colony. More than one queen will fight and only one will survive.
• The queen honey bee lays between 1,000-3,000 eggs per day!

Background Agricultural Connections

Honey bees are an important insect that are familiar to many elementary students. Honey bees like to live in dark, enclosed places. In the wild, they can be found in tree limbs and trunks. Beekeepers care for honey bees in wooden hives . Three different kinds of honey bees live in the hive:

• Queen -  One female who lays all of the eggs . She has a long, thin body and is the largest bee. Queen bees live from 3-5 years and can lay up to 2,000 eggs each day.
• Drones -  Drones are male bees. Their job is to mate with the queen so she can lay eggs. Each colony in the hive has about 100 drone bees.
• Workers -  Worker bees are all females. There are usually hundreds of worker bees in a hive. They are the smallest bees, but they have many important jobs. These jobs include grooming the queen, nursing the brood (young bees), creating wax, building the honeycomb, guarding the hive, foraging for nectar and water, and making honey.

When worker bees are foraging, they collect nectar from flowers using their straw-like mouth part known as a proboscis . The nectar is stored in a special part of their body called the crop , or honey stomach. Pollen is collected on the legs and and body of the forager bees. The pollen is transferred from flower to flower to pollinate the plants so seeds, fruits, and vegetables are produced. Over 1,000 different plants that are grown for food, beverages, fiber, species, and medicine need pollinators in order to produce the products we need and want. 

When the forager worker bees have a full crop, they travel back to the hive. When they are back in the hive, the forager regurgitates the nectar and transfers it to a worker bee in the hive. Enzymes in the stomach of the bees convert the nectar into a thin, watery form of honey. This liquid is placed in a cell in the honeycomb. The bees use their wings to fan the liquid to evaporate the water until it thickens. Finally, the wax-making worker bees seal the honeycomb cell where the honey continues to ripen and develop flavor.

• Provide a sample of honey on a cracker or spoon for students to taste. Encourage them to use adjectives to describe the taste and sweetness that they are experiencing. 
• Ask the students, "How do you think honey is made? Where does it comes from?" 
• Write the word "bee" on the board. Ask the students to brainstorm connections bees have to food, plants, and agriculture. As a class, create a list, mindmap, or a word cloud  about bees that can be posted in the classroom as a tool that can be referred back to throughout the lesson.

Explore and Explain

• Provide each student with the KWL Chart handout. As a class or independently, have the students create a KWL chart  to record what they Know (K) about honey bees, what they Want (W) to know about them, and what they have Learned (L) by the end of the lesson. 

• Bees live in groups called colonies .
• Each colony has one queen . The queen has a longer body than all of the other bees in the colony.
• Drone  bees are smaller than the queen. They are male bees and their only job is to mate with the queen so she can lay more eggs. One colony will have about 100 drone bees.
• Worker  bees are the smallest bees in the colony. They are all female and have lots of different jobs including feeding the larvae; cleaning the hive; creating wax and using it too make new cells; grooming and feeding the queen; guarding and protecting the hive; and leaving the hive to collect pollen, nectar, and water. There are thousands of worker bees in the colony.
• Use the information on the Amazing Bees Online Poster   to help students discover the ways in which bee colonies work together as a community. 
• The bees in a hive live in large groups called colonies. In our school, our class is a large group of students.
• In the hive, there is one bee who is the leader—the queen. In our classroom, the teacher is the leader.
• In the hive, the worker bees have special jobs—take care of the young bees, guard the hive, create wax to build the honeycomb where eggs are laid, forage or find pollen and nectar to feed the bees in the hive, and make honey. In our classroom, we all have jobs. (Students can list jobs specific to their classroom.)
• If a bee doesn't do his/her job, the whole hive is affected. For example, if the bees that are supposed to look for pollen and nectar decide not to, some or all of the bees will not have the proper nutrients. In our classroom, if someone doesn't do their job, it affects the entire class. For example, if one person does not put away their books in our library, other students won't be able to read those books.

Activity 2:   Making Honey  

• Forager bees collect nectar from flowers using their straw-like mouth part called a proboscis. As they suck up the nectar, pollen sticks to their legs and body. Forager bees visit up to 100 flowers to fill their stomachs with nectar. Place small cartons or containers of milk, which represents flowers with nectar, randomly throughout the classroom with a parent volunteer/assistant. Assign half of the students to stand in one corner of the classroom to represent worker bees that stay in the hive. Assign the other half of the students to be foragers. Provide each forager with a 3-ounce cup. Instruct them to visit the flowers where the parent volunteer/assistant will pour a small amount of milk into their cup. When their cup is half-full, they will fly back to the hive.
• When the forager bees are full with nectar, they fly back to the hive and regurgitate the nectar into the mouths of other worker bees. Special enzymes in the stomachs of the bees change the nectar into runny, watery honey. The worker bees spit the honey into the waxy honeycomb.  Have the foragers travel to the "hive" and give their cup of "nectar" (milk) to one of the worker bees. Have parent volunteers/assistants add 1 teaspoon of instant pudding mix to each milk cup. The pudding mix represents the enzymes that turn the nectar into honey.
• The worker bees use their wings as fans to evaporate the water from the honey. This makes the honey thicker. Provide the worker bees with a spoon or stir-stick to mix the milk and pudding mix for 1 minute. Allow the mixture to sit and thicken for 5 minutes.
• The worker bees close up the honeycomb with wax to protect the honey. They use the honey as food for the winter. Lucky for us, they make about 2-3 times more honey than they need so we get to eat it too! Have the parent volunteers/assistants use a can of whipped cream to cover the pudding, representing the wax cover. Provide each student with a spoonful of the pudding to show that the bees all share the honey and some is left over. Beekeepers can take some of the honey, but cannot not take all of the honey or the bees will not have enough to eat throughout the winter. The bees all have an important piece in the job of creating honey and all share the product. 
• As bees travel to find nectar, they brush up on the flower's pollen.
• Pollen is powder-like and sticks to the bees' hairy bodies.
• When the bees fly to the next flower, some of the pollen is brushed off onto the flower.
• The flower uses the pollen to make seeds which can grow new plants that give us fruits, nuts, and vegetables. We depend on pollination for the fruits and vegetables we eat. 
• Ask the students to think about what they have learned about honey bees and what a honey bee's day might be like.
• Have the students write and/or draw about where they would fly and what they would do if they were honey bees. Allow time for the students to share their work.
• Complete the KWL chart from Activity 1  by listing what the class learned about bees. 

Read Buzz-Buzz, Busy Bees by Dawn Bentley. Provide students an opportunity to identify the letters M, m, T, t, F, f, H, h, N, and n in the book. Write an uppercase letter on the wing of each bee on page 1 of the Letter Recognition Worksheet  and a matching lowercase letter on the wings on page 2 . (Letters may be written on the worksheet prior to making copies. They may also be shown on the whiteboard or overhead transparency.) Have the students cut out the wings with lowercase letters (page 2) and match these lowercase letter wings with the corresponding uppercase letter bees to show letter recognition. Provide the students with Play-Doh  to make the shapes of the letters showing that they understand and identify the difference between an uppercase letter and a matching lowercase letter.

Have the students act out the waggle dance of a honey bee. Refer to the lesson Flower Power   Activity 3 for more information.

Throw a honey tasting party which includes various foods that contain honey. 

Assess students in small groups. Provide each student with a dry-erase marker and marker board on which to write their answers. Read each question aloud and have the students write the corresponding letter of their chosen answer on their marker boards.

• The name of the place where a bee lives is called a: A. hole B. hive C. house D. cave Answer: B  
• Which of these is NOT one of the three types of bees we learned about? A. a drone B. a worker C. a sweeper D. a queen Answer: C  
• When a baby bee is growing and it looks like a worm, it is called a: A. larva B. pupa C. caterpillar D. snake Answer: A  
• When a baby bee is growing its eyes, legs, and wings, and has not hatched yet, it is called a: A. worker B. pupa C. queen D. larva Answer: B

Verbal Response – Ask students individually. Explain one way honeybees change the environment around which they live.

Acknowledgements

Some of the materials contained in this lesson plan were drawn and adapted from the following sources:

• National Honey Board  
• National Agriculture in the Classroom   
• Honeybee Trivia Facts  
• Encyclopedia Britannica  
• Scholastic Books  

Recommended Companion Resources

• Achoo! Why Pollen Counts
• Amazing Time-Lapse: Bees Hatch Before Your Eyes
• Anatomy of a Worker Bee
• Bees and Wasps
• Beeswax Lip Balm Kit
• Beeswax Modeling Clay Kit
• Before the Plate Website
• Buzzing With Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
• City of Bees: A Children's Guide to Bees DVD
• Flight of the Honey Bee
• Henry Meets a Honey Bee
• Honey Bee Study Prints
• How It's Made: Honey
• In the Trees, Honey Bees
• Introduction to Pollination video
• Meadowscaping Makes it Better Activity Guide
• Meadowscaping with Kids
• NMSU Field Trip: Honey
• Pollen: Darwin's 130 Year Prediction
• Pollination Simulation Kit
• Prolific Pollinators
• That's So Sweet! – A Look at Honey Production in the Twin Cities
• The Bee Book
• The Bee Tree
• The Honey Files
• The Honeybee Man
• The Honeybee and the Robber
• The Importance of Pollinators
• The Life and Times of the Honeybee
• The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter
• UnBEElievables
• Up Close Experience: Bees
• Utah State University Bee Lab
• When the Bees Fly Home
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Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom

Agriculture and the Environment

• Identify natural resources (T1.K-2.c)

Culture, Society, Economy & Geography

• Identify plants and animals grown or raised locally that are used for food, clothing, shelter, and landscapes (T5.K-2.d)

Education Content Standards

Science (science).

K-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity

• K-ESS3-1    Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.

1-LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

• 1-LS1-1    Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

2-LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

• 2-LS2-2    Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.

2-LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

• 2-LS4-1    Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

Common Core Connections

Anchor standards: language.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.L.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Anchor Standards: Reading

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Anchor Standards: Speaking and Listening

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

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Bees are flying insects that are closely related to ants and wasps. They live in hives of up to 40,000 bees and play a very important role in nature by pollinating flowering plants.

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Key Facts & Information

• There almost 20,000 species of bee. The most common species are honey bees, bumblebees and sweat bees.
• Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica, and in every habitat that has flowering plants.
• Honey bees communicate by dancing. When a worker bee finds a field full of flowers, she will dance directions to show the way.
• Bees feed on nectar by using a long tongue.
• Bees have antennae, two pairs of wings, enlarged hind feet, branched or feathered body hair, and some have a sting.
• Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar, which they turn into honey (a worker bee must visit 4,000 flowers to make 1 tablespoon of honey). They also eat pollen as a source of protein.
• Bees play a very important role in pollinating flowering plants, and have fuzzy bodies, which allows the pollen to stick to the bee.
• The smallest bee is the dwarf bee, which is about 2.1 mm (5/64 of an inch) long and the largest bee can grow to 39 mm (1.5 inches).
• Crab spiders and assassin bugs hide in flowers to capture bees, which can make collecting pollen and nectar dangerous work. But the primary reason honey bees are endangered is because of parasites and man-made pesticides.
• Honey bees and bumblebees live in hives or colonies, which at their peak can have up to 40,000 bees. The colony is made up of one queen bee, thousands of female worker bees, which do not breed, and hundreds of male drone bees.
• A honey bee queen can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day during the spring. She must lay 1,000 to 1,500 eggs per day to account for casualties from daily nectar and pollen gathering.

Bee Worksheets

This is a fantastic bundle which includes everything you need to know about bees across 22 in-depth pages. These are ready-to-use Bee worksheets that are perfect for teaching students about the bees which are flying insects that are closely related to ants and wasps. They live in hives of up to 40,000 bees and play a very important role in nature by pollinating flowering plants.

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Bees worksheet

The following page contains a bees worksheet.

The worksheet will discuss the different classes of bees, their properties, and the importance of bees to the ecosystem.

What is a bees worksheet?

A bee’s worksheet is a document that explains the different classifications of bees, their properties, and the roles of bees in the ecosystem.

How will the bees worksheet help?

The bees worksheet will help the entomology students to understand the various classes of bees, their different properties, and the importance of bees to the ecosystem.

The worksheet will also highlight the advantages of bees to human activities.

Instructions on using the bees worksheet.

The bees worksheet contains sections that will explain the following:

• The classification of bees.
• The properties of bees.
• The advantages of bees to the ecosystem.
• The importance of bees to human beings.

Conclusion.

The worksheet has explained the different classifications of bees, the properties of different classes of bees, and the importance of bees to their different ecosystems.

We hope the worksheet was of great assistance to you.

If you have any questions or comments please let us know.

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• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bee
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Bees are essential to the survival of our planet. They pollinate more than two-thirds of the world’s plants, and without them, we might never have coffee, chocolate, strawberries, tea, and everything about food.

Parts of a bee.

The bee is in class Insecta. Most parts resemble those of other insects, but the bee has some key features that are different from other insects.

The head holds the feeding and sensory structures such as antennae and proboscis.

It contains other structures such as Johnson’s organ, sensory palps, compound eyes, the brain, and the pharynx.

The thorax is the engine room for the bee.

It contains three fused segments that contain the flight muscles.

The thorax also holds the wings of the bee.

The abdomen is the rear part of the bee, it comes after the thorax.

The abdomen holds the heart, the digestive system, breathing parts, and the sexual organs.

Compound eye.

Bees have a pair of compound eyes, each of which contains up to 1700 small lenses. This aids the butterfly to have a wide field of view.

The antenna is found just below the eyes. A bee has a pair of antennae.

Antennas are used for detecting the speed of the wind, and smells, and also for balance.

Pollen basket.

It is also called the corbicula. It is found in the hind legs of honey bees. It is used for harvesting and carrying pollen grains.

The stinger is used for defense and predation purposes. It is used to sting the prey, or the enemy, polarizing it using the venom.

These are the anterior wings that are attached to the middle segment of the thorax ( the mesothorax).

These are the posterior wings that are attached to the last segment of the thorax ( the metathorax).

Wing veins.

These are structures that, surprisingly, do not contain blood, but are air-filled to provide structural support to bees.

Cerebral ganglion.

The cerebral ganglion holds the brain of the bee.

The trachea carries oxygen around the body.

The aorta carries the hemolymph around the body.

The heart of the bee pumps the hemolymph around the body.

Malpighian tubes.

The Malpighian tubules float freely in the hemolymph. They are excretory organs that remove waste products from the body.

The Midgut.

The midgut is a structure that secretes enzymes and the peritrophic membrane.

The midgut also absorbs food broken down by digestive enzymes.

Nerve cord.

The nerve cord is connected to the brain. It contains a series of ganglia running its length. It is part of the bee’s nervous system.

The esophagus is a tubular structure that passes food from the pharynx to the crop.

This is a large, sac-like structure in the gut of a bee. The crop holds food temporarily before digestion begins.

Types of bees.

Mature bees are classified differently based on their roles in their habitats.

The following are the different types of bees.

A queen bee is the female reproductive leader of a beehive. All honeybees, like all other bees, are females and all colonies have one queen. 

The queen’s primary functions are to:

In the summer, a hive’s queen may lay up to 1500 eggs per day. This is over three times as many eggs per day as a worker bee will lay. 

The queen is the largest female in the hive and can be 80% of the hive’s weight when fully developed but only about 1/14th of its weight at egg laying. 

At that size and laying so many eggs, she uses a lot of protein, so she eats half her body weight in food every day to provide energy for egg development. She also requires additional amounts of vitamins and minerals.

The queen bee can live up to 5 years, while worker bees live only a few weeks in the summer and several months in the winter. 

She is physically capable of living as much as 5 years if she escapes extinction by disease or parasites, but it is not uncommon for queens to die of old age within 2–3 years.

The drone bee is a male honey bee that fertilizes the queen bee with the sole purpose of mating with her. 

These bees are usually larger than their female counterparts, and they do not collect pollen or produce honey. 

Once a drone mates with the queen, he dies since his only reason for existing has been fulfilled.

Drone bees increase the queen’s sperm supply when she is not fertile due to other males, and so that she can have more offspring. 

The drone bee spends about three weeks in the hive, where he consumes food from the hive and stores it in his body. 

When the queen bee is ready to mate with a male, she finds the drone bee and takes him to her burrow. 

She uses her abdomen to cut through his abdomen and make a new entrance. Then, they mate. After the mating, the male bee dies since it has served its purpose. 

After a few days, the queen bee lays between one and four dozen eggs that will become female bees called workers. 

The drone bees are born in early spring and mate with the queen when she is ready to be fertilized.

Worker bee.

A worker bee is a female bee, who gathers nectar and pollen, feeds the queen (the only “female” bee who lays eggs), and undertakes other jobs inside the hive.

A worker bee has a role in the colony just like people have a role in society. The whole of the colony is made up of workers doing different jobs to ensure its survival.

Workers have the same abdominal hair (cilia) as drones. 

Only the females can sting. 

The workers have a stinger with which they sting intruders to defend the hive. 

They are smaller than their brothers, the drones.

They do not have large eyes for seeing long distances like their brothers and sisters, the queens (who do not work). 

Workers don’t mate or lay eggs but can live up to six weeks in a large colony if they are healthy and well fed.

Like all bees, worker bees feed themselves and their young with nectar and pollen gathered from flowers.

They are therefore essential to the colony’s survival.

When a worker bee returns to her home nest at the end of her foraging period, she does not eat but rather departs immediately for the nest entrance. 

Mission accomplished, she then returns to the hive. As she is returning with pollen and nectar she also carries back a little bit of wax, which she deposits at a special spot in the tunnel; this wax is the material that will make up the cell that serves as her home during her lifetime.

Advantages of bees to the ecosystem.

The following are the advantages of bees to the environment:

1. Bees produce honey from nectar, which is a natural sweetener, and bees use this nectar to make thousands of other substances.

2. They live in colonies with about 50,000-100,000 individuals each and will keep the environment healthy by stopping any diseases from spreading.

3. Bee hives provide lots of useful dead wood for birds’ nests or animals to use as shelter and protection under their homes.

4. Some bees can even provide moisture to plants during drought times.

5. Bees have been proven to create a positive impact on the economy when they are farmed.

Beers worksheet-Answer key.

1.) What are the advantages of bees to the environment?

2.) Explain the functions of a worker bee.

b.) Explain the properties of worker bees.

3.) What is a drone bee?

4.) What is a Queen bee?

A queen bee is the female reproductive leader of a beehive. All honeybees, like all other bees, are females and all colonies have one queen.

5.) Explain the characteristics of a queen bee.

6.) What are the functions of the queen bee?

Mate with drones.

Produce pheromones for the regulation of the colony’s activities.

Control disease outbreaks within the hive.

7.) What are the key functions of the following types of bees?

Drone bee: it mates with the queen bee.

Worker bee: it fetches nectar for feeding queen bees and drones. It also provides defense against enemies.

Queen bee: it lays eggs.

7.) Name the different parts of a bee.

Compound eyes.

8.) Explain the functions of the following parts of a bee.

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There are over 20,000 species of bees live on Earth. Bees are small flying insects that have stings and make honey. Some kinds of bees are the  honey bees ,  wasps , and  bumblebees .

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