By: SARINA CALJOUW AND ROMINA JURDI 5/6h

Basic anatomy Honey bees have hairy brown or black bodies with yellow stripes. They have four wings and four hairy legs joined to their thorax. A bees body is about 14 millimetres long. In a hive the largest bee is the queen bee. Basic anatomy picture on next page

BASIC ANATOMY

life cycle The Queen bee is the only honeybee that lays eggs. Drones (male bees ) mate with the Queen honeybee who lays up to 2000 eggs a day. After three days the larvae ( baby bees ) hatch and are fed pollen and honey by the worker bees.

Habitat Bees live in big groups called hives. In the wild bees build their hives in hollow trees, cracks , rocks or holes in the ground. Their hive is where bees store all of the honey that they have collected.

Bee Hives

Global Presence Honey bees are everywhere but they are mostly found in places around Asia and Europe. Bees don’t live where it is cold , they like to stay in warm places. Honeybees are not in countries like Greenland, Iceland and Antarctica because that is where it is always cold. They like to stay in warm places because they will live for longer.

Adaptive or Defensive? Worker bees always use their stingers for stinging their enemies while they are looking after the other honeybees. Their stingers really hurt , they have a liquid inside the stinger that will hurt inside your body where the bee has stung you.

food chain King bird Bee-eater Robber Fly pollen

Role in the Environment A bees role in the environment is to go to flowers and collect pollen, by that they can make some flowers grow because they drop pollen when they are flying around.

Pictures and drawings

Here are some bee species: Local Species Here are some bee species: Andrenidae Apidae Colletidae Dasypodaidae Halictidae Megachilidae Meganomiidae Melittidae Stenotritidae Next slide local species picture

HONEY BEES Local species in Australia

Harmful and beneficial Harmful: Bees like to eat food especially sweet food such as sugar etc. When bees sting it really hurts, when people get stung by them the mark of the sting stays on your skin for a few weeks. Bees only sting people because they are threatened or scared.

Harmful and Beneficial Beneficial: Bees are beneficial because they make honey for us to eat. Honey bees produce the most honey then all the bees, they also take pollen faster because that is their main job.

Did you know that bees cannot see the colour red. Unique Bee Facts Did you know that bees cannot see the colour red. Bees have to go to at least 2 million flowers to just make a pound of honey. Did you know that a honeybee beats its wings about 11,500 times a minute! Did you know it takes 12 honeybees to make a teaspoon of honey!

THE END BY: Romina Jurdi And Sabrina Caljouw