1. By: Tristan and Ally

2. QUEEN.  The bees make a queen by selecting one larva and feeding it “Royal Jelly”.  Royal Jelly is a powerful milky substance.  The Queen is the only bee with fully developed ovaries.  She lays up to 2000 eggs a day and lives from 3 to 5 years.

3. Worker Bees o Worker honey bees are all female. o Their jobs consist of gathering pollen, protecting the Queen, and making honey. o The bees have a stinger, but the can only sting once. o The first 21 days of the new bees life they stay in the hive doing “house work”. o Worker bees live for around 6 months in the winter time. But only around 6 weeks in the summer time.

4.  Male Bees have only one job. To mate with the Queen.  After they mate with the Queen they die.

5. POLLEN COLLECTING  Bees collect about 66lbs of pollen per year.  The honey bees use the pollen as food. It is one of the richest foods.

6. Bees Beeswax Beeswax is used by the Honey Bee to make the honey comb. It is used by humans in drugs, cosmetics, artists materials, furniture polish and candles.

7.  The largest bee threat is mites. There are two different types of mites. Varroa and tracheal.  Disease: Foul Brood and Nosema  CCD: Colony Collapse Disorder

8.  The Bee’s use their honey for food all year round.  Honey has antibacterial qualities.  If you eat local honey it can fend off allergies.

9. Bee facts….. A hive may contain up to 80,000 bees and more. The bees can tell if a queen dies by smell, phermones Changing queens will change the personalities of the bees and the bees behavior.

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