Bee Types
The type of male bee that's sole purpose is to mate with the queen.
What is the drone bee?
The sweet food that bees make that people like to eat too!
What is honey?
A couple of weeks before leaving the old hive, the workers build new ______.
What are cells?
Where bees can find nectar and pollen to take back to the hive.
For the first few days, a house bee's job is to help keep the hive _________.
What is clean?
There is only one per hive. Her job is to make more bees for the hive.
What is the queen bee?
Bees make ________________, which people use to make candles.
What is beeswax?
A new hive is necessary because the current hive is too _______________.
What is crowded?
A honeybee will die after using her _____________ because it gets ripped away from her body.
What is stinger?
The smooth site surrounded by curved hair on a field bee's hind legs where pollen is stored.
What is the pollen basket?
The type of bee that protects the hive from invaders.
What is the guard bee?
The substance that nurse bees feed to the queen's newly born babies.
What is royal jelly?
The place the worker bees store the honey as they prepare to leave the hive.
What are bellies?
This is where nectar is stored.
What is the honey sac?
This is what nectar is turned into when a field bee sucks it into its belly.
What is honey?
Some field bees are _____________; they search for flowers that are good for pollen and nectar.
What are scout bees?
The structure that contains a mass of cells, which are six-sided compartments
What is the honeycomb?
The material that helps seal the eggs in the honeycomb during the process of swarming.
What are wax caps?
The thing that a scout bee does to show the field bees where the sun will be as they fly to a flower.
What is a dance?
How long drone bees live.
What is 8 weeks?
What are house bee and nurse bee?
The straw-like part of a field bee that sucks up nectar.
What is the proboscis?
How a new queen is selected at the old hive.
What is the first queen to break through the wax caps and kill all the other possible queens becomes the new queen?
The thing flowers would not be able to do if it weren't for bees.
What is reproduce?
Two things about the queen's body that make her different from other bees.
What are a huge body, curved stinger, stinger can be used more than once?