In Room 6 at St Mary's School we have been learning all about bees. They are such interesting creatures! We got so curious about them and learned so much.
Did you know that bees are really important to our food? Lots of the food we eat, like fruits and vegetables, are pollinated by bees. They wouldn't be able to grow without them.
Many of the animals in our world would disappear without bees too, because they pollinate the foods that the animals eat too.
Some of our favourite things about bees are:
A large group of bees is called a colony.
Bees spew honey into other bees mouths - that’s how they make honey. Other bees spew it into honeycombs and that's how we get honey. Bees leave some of their honey and make it into this hard stuff that they eat. Honeybees make lots of honey but normal bees and bumble bees don’t. Each bee makes only a little amount of honey - in their lifetime they make about one teaspoon of honey. Honey never goes off.
Girl bees are worker bees.
Boy bees are called drones.
Bees have six legs. They are insects.
Bees have five eyes. Bees have three body parts - the head, the abdomen, and the thorax.
If a queen bee dies the other bees will put royal jelly into cells to make a new queen. The queen. They lay about 2000 eggs a day. Bees are very tidy - if one dies, one of them has a job to put it outside of the hive.
When they talk they dance - that’s how they tell other bees how to get to a good flower
When they talk they shake their bodies.
Bees can get viruses that make their wings go bent when they hatch.
We want to save the bees because they are important to our survival and the survival of many animals.
