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The Different Types of Honey Bees
Fun Facts
The Queen Bee
Body Parts
The Hive
100
How many types of honey bees are there?
Three.
100
A bee can fly at speeds up to ____mph
15 mph.
100
How many queen bees are there per hive?
One.
100
The three parts of the bee are the head, thorax, and _____.
Abdomen.
100
Hives are made of what?
Wax.
200
The job of this bee is to mate with the queen.
A Drone.
200
An average worker bee makes this much honey in their lifetime.
Less than one teaspoon.
200
What is the queens job?
To lay eggs.
200
A bee has ______ compound eyes and ____ simple eyes.
2 compound, 3 simple
200
Each individual chamber in a hive is called a ______.
Cell.
300
This type of bee does all the work, including gathering food, guarding and cleaning the hive, making the honey, and feeding all of the bees.
The Worker Bee.
300
The main type of honey that we buy comes from this plant/flower.
The clover.
300
What is the average number of eggs that a queen lays per day.
2,000 eggs
300
Who has stingers?
Only the females (the queen and the workers, NOT the drones)
300
Cells have ____ sides and are shaped like a _______.
6 sides, hexagon
400
For every one queen bee, how many worker bees are there?
Thousands.
400
A honey bee will fly up to this many miles from their nest in search of food.
8 miles.
400
What is the average amount of time that a queen bee lives?
3-5 years.
400
What is another name for the honey stomach, where the nectar is stored?
The crop.
400
A group of bees is called a ____________, and as many as ________ live together.
colony, 50,000
500
A drone takes _____ days to grow from an egg to an adult bee, the longest time of the three types of bees.
24 days
500
The Latin name for the honey bee is ________, meaning honey bearer.
Apis Mellifera
500
This is the type of food that developing queen bees are fed.
Royal Jelly.
500
What is the body part used to collect nectar?
The proboscis.
500
What is a cell called where eggs are laid?
A Brood Cell.