By:SARINA CALJOUW AND

ROMINA JURDI

5/6h

Honey bees have hairy brown or black bodies with yellow

stripes. They have four wings and four hairy legs joined to their thorax. A bees body is

about 14 millimetres long. In a hive the largest bee is the

queen bee.Basic anatomy picture on next page

The Queen bee is the only honeybee that lays eggs. Drones

(male bees ) mate with the Queen honeybee who lays up to 2000

eggs a day. After three days the larvae ( baby bees ) hatch and are

fed pollen and honey by the worker bees.

Bees live in big groups called hives. In the wild bees build their hives in

hollow trees, cracks , rocks or holes in the ground. Their hive is where

bees store all of the honey that they have collected.

Bee Hives

Honey bees are everywhere but they are mostly found in places around Asia and Europe. Bees don’t live where it is cold , they like to stay in warm places.

Honeybees are not in countries like Greenland, Iceland and Antarctica

because that is where it is always cold. They like to stay in warm places

because they will live for longer.

Worker bees always use their stingers for stinging their

enemies while they are looking after the other honeybees.

Their stingers really hurt , they have a liquid inside the stinger that will hurt inside your body where the bee has stung you.

Bee-eater King bird

pollen

Robber Fly

A bees role in the environment is to go to

flowers and collect pollen, by that they can make some flowers grow because they drop pollen when they are

flying around.

Pictures and drawings

Here are some bee species:• Andrenidae• Apidae• Colletidae• Dasypodaidae• Halictidae• Megachilidae• Meganomiidae• Melittidae• Stenotritidae

Next slide local species picture

Local species in Australia

Harmful: Bees like to eat food especially sweet food such as

sugar etc. When bees sting it really hurts, when people get stung by them the mark of the sting stays

on your skin for a few weeks. Bees only sting people because they are

threatened or scared.

Beneficial: Bees are beneficial because they make honey for us to eat. Honey bees produce

the most honey then all the bees, they also take pollen faster because that is their

main job.

1.Did you know that bees cannot see the colour red.

2.Bees have to go to at least 2 million flowers to just make

a pound of honey.3.Did you know that a honeybee beats its wings

about 11,500 times a minute!

4.Did you know it takes 12 honeybees to make a teaspoon of honey!

BY: Romina Jurdi And

Sabrina Caljouw