Honey Bees are a well known insect, but only seven species are recognized by people. There are over 20,000 known species of Bees! There are 3 main jobs in the hive which are Queen, Drones, and Workers. Drones take 24 days to develop. They don't have stingers, and have large eyes to find Queens during mating season. Workers typically take 21 days to develop. There are over 60,000 Worker Bees in a hive! The Worker are all females. The Workers job is to take care of the young, find nectar, protect the hive, and to make honey! There's only one Queen in the hive and she is the one who gives birth to all the other bees the Workers and the Drones which the queens mate with. Over the queens life(5 years) every day a queen can lay 2000 eggs and over her life she will lay over 1,000,000(1 million) eggs and over!
The process of making honey is a long and hard process. If you were a bee at human size, working all by yourself. You would only make have made 2 teaspoons of honey by the time you graduate college! Imagine you are a small little Honey Bee who is waiting for another bee to return and tell you where to go. Suddenly another bee comes flying in and starts dancing. "What is he doing?" Well, this bee is telling you how to get to a patch of flowers. Bees communicate by dancing in different patterns to tell other bees how to get there.
After the bees get to the flowers and collect nectar(a sweet liquid in flowers) they come back to the hive to fill their honey combs. They place the nectar in honey combs. While those bees go out and collect more nectar, other bees start to stir the nectar with their tongues and fanning it with their wings. After a awhile, the sweet nectar will turn into another sweet liquid, we all know as honey.
So the next time you see a bee and think you should kill it, think again because that little bee is just one in a million others just trying to make some of the sweet stuff.
The process of making honey is a long and hard process. If you were a bee at human size, working all by yourself. You would only make have made 2 teaspoons of honey by the time you graduate college! Imagine you are a small little Honey Bee who is waiting for another bee to return and tell you where to go. Suddenly another bee comes flying in and starts dancing. "What is he doing?" Well, this bee is telling you how to get to a patch of flowers. Bees communicate by dancing in different patterns to tell other bees how to get there.
After the bees get to the flowers and collect nectar(a sweet liquid in flowers) they come back to the hive to fill their honey combs. They place the nectar in honey combs. While those bees go out and collect more nectar, other bees start to stir the nectar with their tongues and fanning it with their wings. After a awhile, the sweet nectar will turn into another sweet liquid, we all know as honey.
So the next time you see a bee and think you should kill it, think again because that little bee is just one in a million others just trying to make some of the sweet stuff.