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Make a Flowering Bee Book
Print out the next page. Cut out the flower along the solid lines. Next fold the petals along the dotted lines. If you would like to add some of your own style on the opposite side color the flower for your bees!
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Three quarters of the world’s flowering plants rely on animal pollinators such as bees—that includes 35 percent of all food crops. Th
e honey bee, an ubiquitous pollina-
tor, is one of the most frequent visitors
to flowers in ecosystems around the
world.
A foraging bee can fly at a speed of up
to 15 miles per hour; she m
ay explore
for flowers up to five miles away from
the hive.
Almost every worker honey bee will forage for nectar and
pollen sometime during her lifetime. Before she goes on
her first foraging trip, she will make a special flight to learn how to navigate outside the hive.
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Flowering Bee BookWorker bees collectively fly more than 50,000 miles to collect the nectar for one pound of honey. Each worker bee only flies about 500 miles in her lifetime, enough to make about half a teaspoon of honey.
Make a Flowering Bee BookCut out the flower along the solid lines. Next fold the petals along the dotted lines. If you would like to add some of your own style on the opposite side color the flower for your bees!Bee by parkjisun from the Noun Project.