Characteristics
This feature on bees legs forms a basket for collecting pollen
What are hairs
These male bees help the queen make eggs
Who are the drones
Bees move pollen to help plants reproduce. This is know as __________.
What is pollination
What is a colony
Bees have two different kind of eyes, true or false?
True
Bees use this to drink nectar from flowers
What is their tongue
These female bees do most of the jobs for the colony
Who are the workers
Bees help plants make ________ through pollination
What are seeds
A flower's ________ sticks to tiny hairs on a bee's body.
What is pollen
How many worker bees might live in a colony, 500 or 5,000
5,000
Bees do this to communicate where flowers are to other bees
What is a kind of dancing
This is the queen bee's primary role
In additon to pollen, bees bring this liquid from the flowers back to the hive and convert it into honey
What is nectar
This is the nest, home and food factory of the bees
What is the hive
1,000
Three internal traits of bees are...
loyal, protective, brave, hardworking, communal
Only this bee can establish new colonies
Who is the queen bee
Bees make honey and ________ which can be used for candles and cleaning
What is beeswax (wax)
Bees move pollen from the stamen to this part of the flower, which begins the process of pollination
What is the pistil
Worker and Queen
Do honeybees' stripes help them camouflage or act as a warning to honey robbers?
A warning
Name three jobs of worker bees
tend eggs, store food, find food, make honey, protect the hive
Without the help of bees for pollination, plants might not produce these foods that humans eat
What are fruits and vegetables
Bees make a network of hexagon-shaped wax cells for the honey, called a __________.
Honeycomb
Which of these is NOT something the bee uses its jaw for? Cutting wax, feeding babies and the queen, fighting, cleaning the hive, singing to tell other bees where flowers are
singing to tell where flowers are