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Honey Bees

• The Queen of the hive is the ruler of the hive

• She lays all the eggs and is the only fertile bee in the hive

• She controls the hive with pheromones she produces

• The Queen is larger than all the other bees

• The Queen gets all these qualities from feeding off of royal jelly while in the larva stage

• The Queen is usually marked by a beekeeper

The Queen

• The males within the hive

• They do no jobs for the hive

• They are born to mate

• They are kicked out of the hive at winter

• There mating organ is barbed so when they breed, the organ is ripped out, and so is their stomach, so they die

Drones

• Worker bees make up most of the hive

• Worker bees do everything in the hive other then breed and lay eggs

• Worker bees are all females

• They have many jobs that are carried out at peak efficiency

• They are controlled by the queens pheromones

Worker bees

• Gatherers are worker bees whose sole purpose is to collect nectar and pollen

• They get all the food for the colony, but have the most dangerous jobs

• Gathers are targeted by predators, such as wasps, birds, and humans

• They are the bees you see flying around

• They get the food from plants

Gatherers

Bees• Pollinate• Feed off

of nectar in buds

Plants• Are

pollinated by the bees

• Produce buds to be pollinated

• Without bees, plants would get very little pollination

• Pollination makes the crop more than 100 times more successful

• Without nature around bees, they would die from starvation

The circle of pollination

• Honey is the nectar of many flowers mixed together then slightly dehydrated

• Honey has never goes bad, for instance, honey in King Tuts tomb is still edible

• Bees make it for food

Honey!!!

• It increase the production by 10000%

• Makes flowering trees more exuberant

Benefits to crops

• Bees sting as a last ditch effort to protect the hive or as a final stand kind of defence

• The bees stinger is barbed, so after they sting, the stinger gets implanted and the barbs get stuck, securing the stinger to the body

• The stinger gets ripped out of the bee when it stings, ripping out internal organs in the process, killing it as well

• The stinger has a muscle attached to it so that it keeps pumping venom even, when the stinger is no longer attached to the bee

• Bees stings are a very common allergen

Why do bees sting?

• Bees live in hives of up to 80 000

• Some bee hives have been as big as the wall of a house

• Bee hives are full of honey comb, which are all perfect hexagons, even though they have no guide to work off of

What do bees live in?

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