bee research by ms. kuykendall’s class 2007. honeybees and honey by william, devin and franklin...
TRANSCRIPT
A honeybee can visit up to 10,000 flowers a day to get nectar and pollen. That makes only one teaspoon of honey.
Egg
• The queen bee lays many eggs. This is the first stage of a bee’s life. The worker bee takes 21 days to become an adult. The drone takes 24 and the queen takes 16 days.
Pupa
• A pupa is a little white worm. • The pupa spins a silky cocoon around itself during this
stage.
Making Honey
• First, a field bee collects nectar
• Next the honeybee turns the nectar into sweet honey
• Finally the honey is put into cells called honeycombs and then a cap of bees wax is put onto the top of the honeycomb
• Then a beekeeper comes and puts the honey in bottles to sell to people
Interesting Facts
• It takes one million flowers to make a pound of honey
• The female workers collect the nectar
More Interesting Facts
• The taste and color depends on the nectar
• They take it back to the hive in a honey stomach
Honeybees communicate one way by doing a dance called the round dance which tells the estimate of the distance between the hive and the flowers.
Round Dance
Honeybees also have another dance called the wagging dance that they use to say the exact distance between the hive and the flowers.
Wagging Dance
Honeybees also smell to communicate. The smell is called pheromone. The worker bees smell this and it tells them if they can get back to work or have to help the queen.
Pheromone