Roles
This bee is the leader of the hive and lay eggs.
Who is the queen bee?
Bees are commonly used to symbolize hard work and this cooperative quality.
What is teamwork?
This part of a bee's body is used mainly for flying.
What is the thorax?
Bees interact with flowers by transferring this powder that helps plants reproduce.
What is pollen?
This sweet substance made by bees never spoils. Even after thousands of years.
What is honey?
These bees do most of the work in the hive .
Who are the worker bees?
Because bees live and work together in a hive, they often symbolize this idea in society.
What is community?
These sensory structures help bees smell, touch, and detect vibrations
What are antennae?
This dance is used by bees to communicate the location of food to other bees
What is the waggle dance?
Only these bees are capable of tinging because the stinger is a modified egg-laying organ
What are female bees (worker bees)?
These young worker bees help feed and take care of baby bees in the hive.
Who are nurse bees?
In literature and history, bees often represent this concept due to their highly organized social structure.
What is order (or discipline)?
This mouthpart allows bees to collect nectar from deep inside flowers.
What is the proboscis?
when a honeybee stings, it releases this chemical signal that attracts other bees to the threat.
What is an alarm pheromone?
A honeybee must visit about how many flowers to make one pound of honey.
What is about 2 million flowers?
These bees protect the hive from danger.
Who are guard bees?
Bees have symbolized royalty and power in ancient cultures because of this central figure in the hive.
Who is the queen bee?
This body section contains the digestive system and the stinger.
What is the abdomen?
Bees and flowering plants benefit each other in this type of biological relationship.
What is mutualism?
Bees use this celestial object as a reference point when performing their waggle dance.
What is the sun?
This bee does not collect food and is mainly used for reproduction.
What is a drone?
Because bees create honey through collective effort, they are often used to symbolize this outcome of cooperation
What is productivity?
These specialized structures on a worker bee's hind legs are used to transport pollen.
What are pollen baskets?
The bee interaction allows a hive to create a new colony when the old one becomes overcrowded.
What is swarming?
These settlers unintentionally introduced honeybees to North America in the 1600s.
Who were Europeans?