They live in hives of up to 40,000 bees and play a very important role in nature by pollinating flowering plants. These are ready-to-use Bee worksheets that are perfect for teaching students about the bees which are flying insects that are closely related to ants and wasps. This is a fantastic bundle which includes everything you need to know about bees across 22 in-depth pages. She must lay 1,000 to 1,500 eggs per day to account for casualties from daily nectar and pollen gathering. A honey bee queen can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day during the spring.The colony is made up of one queen bee, thousands of female worker bees, which do not breed, and hundreds of male drone bees. Honey bees and bumblebees live in hives or colonies, which at their peak can have up to 40,000 bees.But the primary reason honey bees are endangered is because of parasites and man-made pesticides. Crab spiders and assassin bugs hide in flowers to capture bees, which can make collecting pollen and nectar dangerous work.The smallest bee is the dwarf bee, which is about 2.1 mm (5/64 of an inch) long and the largest bee can grow to 39 mm (1.5 inches).Bees play a very important role in pollinating flowering plants, and have fuzzy bodies, which allows the pollen to stick to the bee.They also eat pollen as a source of protein. Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar, which they turn into honey (a worker bee must visit 4,000 flowers to make 1 tablespoon of honey). Animals aren’t actors, spectacles to imprison and gawk at, or circus clowns.Yet thousands of elephants, bears, apes, and others are forced to perform silly, difficult tricks under the threat of physical punishment carted across the country in cramped, stuffy semi-truck trailers kept chained or caged in barren, filthy enclosures and regularly separated from.Bees have antennae, two pairs of wings, enlarged hind feet, branched or feathered body hair, and some have a sting.Bees feed on nectar by using a long tongue.
When a worker bee finds a field full of flowers, she will dance directions to show the way. Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica, and in every habitat that has flowering plants.
The most common species are honey bees, bumblebees and sweat bees.
See the fact file below for more information on the bees or alternatively, you can download our 22-page Bee worksheet pack to utilise within the classroom or home environment. Bees are flying insects that are closely related to ants and wasps.