Honey Bees

Introduction

Honey bees are small insects. They make delicious honey with different kinds of flowers.

What Do They Look Like?   
Honey bees have 3 body parts, - head, thorax and an abdomen. Honey bees are golden bees with black stripes. They have six legs and four wings, also have two compound eyes, a have a pair of antennas on their heads and have pollen baskets on their legs.

Where Do They Live?

Honey bees can live in beehives, on a bee farm but, with places like Antarctica, there are no flowers. It is also way too cold for bees to survive in that kind of weather. If there are no flowers in the world, bees wouldn't be alive because there wouldn’t be anything to pollinate.  

Giving Birth

The queen bee lays over 2000 eggs a day. The queen mates with the drones to make eggs. The queen bee lays an egg in the wax honey comb then it will eventually turn into larva. When they have gone through that stage, they will either turn into a drone adult bee or a worker.

How Long Do Honey Bees Live?

The queen bee lives for about a few years. With a worker  or a drone, it is 2 months.  

What Do They Do?

Worker bees are hard workers. They must visit about 1000 flowers to fill their bee stomachs with nectar. Bees actually have two stomachs, their regula stomachs and their honey stomachs. When their honey stomachs are full, they will go back to the hive and, with another worker that is at the hive, the bees will put their long tube tongues in each other’s mouths. The bee who is in the hive will chew the nectar for about half an hour. It will become like a liquid. The bees will put the nectar into an empty hexagon then cover it with wax. The nectar will go thicker and thicker. In about a few days, the beekeeper will come and collect it.

How Do They Communicate With Each Other?

When a bee finds a flower with lots of pollen and nectar, it will do a waggle dance. Just like waggle to the left, waggle to the right, for  excellent a  direction when the workers are in flight.