Honeybee Research

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Honeybee Research

• By
• Mrs. Sherstads
• 3rd grade class
• 2007-2008

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Where do Honeybees live?
Honeybees live in hives made of wax for
protection. Some even live in man-made hives.
Workers, a queen, and some drones live in one
hive. By Channon and Annika
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Where Do Honeybees Live?
Honeybees live everywhere except
Some honeybees live in colonies. Antarctica.
Southern Canada, Each colony
has from 30,000 to Europe, Africa, Northern and
Western 60,000 female worker bees. Asia,
South and North America are a few locations in
the world that have bees.
By Gabby and Jack
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The Life Cycle of a Honeybee

• There are four stages of a honeybees
• life.
• Queen lays eggs in the cells of the hive.
• Three days later a small larva hatches from the
• egg.
• By Jacob and
  Anthony

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What is the lifecycle of the honeybee? By
Tatiana and Ana

• After 6 days the size of the larva grows 500
  times its size. The worker bees feed it a pollen
  and honey mixture called bee bread.
• The cell is capped off and the pupa stage begins.
  The pupa will form into a silky cocoon around
  itself and changes begin to happen.
• 21 days later a full grown worker bee emerges and
  begins its busy as a bee life.

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What Jobs Do Honeybees Have?
By William and Hannah
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Worker bees

• pollinate flowers
• produce nectar
• pollen for the hive
• produce honey wax
• for themselves and for us
• build the hive
• feed the queen bee and
• larvae
• guard the hive
• keep the hive cool
• Clean and repair the hive

By Annemarie and Rene
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How do honeybees depend on flowers?
Honeybees depend on the flowers because the
pollen from the flowers stick to the bees coat.
She combs the pollen into pollen baskets on her
hind outer legs. During the last 3 weeks of their
lives, worker bees fly out to collect pollen and
nectar for the larvae and beehive. (Fiona
Yasmine)
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How do honeybees depend on Flowers?

• Bees depend on flowers for nectar and pollen.
• Nectar is a sweet liquid in flowers.
• Bees eat pollen and drink nectar.
• Bees have proboscis to drink nectar. Proboscis is
  a straw-like tongue used to suck nectar.

By Kevin and Ben
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How Do Flowers Depend On Bees

• Bees go from flower to flower collecting nectar.
  In the process they spread pollen . Pollen acts
  like a fertilizer that helps the flowers make
  fruit.

By Ryan and Ramsey
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How Do Honeybees Make Honey?By Jessica and
Danielle

• Honey is produced by worker bees from the nectar
  of flowers.
• Bees transform nectar into honey .
• Bees drink nectar from flowers.
• The bees spit the nectar drop by drop.
• The nectar dries on the bees tongues and they fan
  their wings 200 times a second to help dry the
  nectar.
• Finally it will be thick and smooth to turn into
  honey.

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HOW DO HONEYBEES MAKE HONEY?

• The honey bees store honey in cells. Then, the
  bee puts
• a cap of beeswax to cover the cell. Next, inside
  the
• compartments the water evaporates from the
  nectar,
• and it changes into honey.

Omar and Adam