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Bees (Introduction: (Honey starts as a flower nectar collected by bees…
Bees
Introduction:
Honey starts as a flower nectar collected by bees which gets broken down down into simple sugars stored inside the honeycomb.The design of the honeycomb and constant fanning of the bees wings causes evaporation creating liquid gold.
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Bees search and get nectar from over 2 million flowers ans store the nectar in a honey sac a second stomach until she returns to the hive.
Elaboration:The nectar load is transferred to the work bee in the hive who sucks the nectar from the honey sac through there proboscis.
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The types of bees are a drone bee ,Queen bee,Guard bee,babysitters bee,worker bee they all have important jobs.
Elaboration: The queen has one job and that only job is to give birth to 10000 eggs a day.Did you know that a bee survives by avoiding heavy rain or else they will be grounded and there wing muscles will be damaged.
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Bees habitat, bees live in a beehive the size of the small pocket shaped as a octagon.
Elaboration:The beehive is built in a tree and some bees are harvested in a box.Bees are one of the most important insects because they provide honey for us humans.
Movement of a bee:
honey bees communicate through movement, honey bee workers perform a series of movements also referred to as the waggle dance to teach other workers the location of food sources more then 150 meters from the hive.
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The growth of bees:
After 3 days the eggs will hatch into a larvae, which will be fed by work bees.The larvae's eat royal jelly and other liquids from plants.For the larvae to grow they need vitamins and minerals and those things are in the pollen they eat!
Reproduce
The queen bee and drones fully develop reproductive systems.The queen flies out of the beehive and she mates usually with 8-12 drones in mid air and in approximately a 25 meter height.
Excretion:
Bees excrete minute yellow globs while coming to or from there hive.Nectar is converted into honey in the bees stomach and is vomited back out and stored in a hexagon wax cells with in the hive.
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