Whats the buzz about bees

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Whats the buzz about bees?
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Here are the members of a bee family.

• Queen bee Worker bee Drone
  bee

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Queen Bee

• The queen is the only bee in the hive that can
  lay eggs.
• The queen can lay up to 1000 eggs a day.
• That is all she does in the spring and summer.
• A queen can live up to five years.

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Worker Bee

• Workers bees are all females.
• Workers can not lay eggs.
• They do all the work in the colony, including
  feeding the young, gathering food, building the
  honeycomb cells and guarding the colony.
• They live only 6 weeks.

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The Drone Bee

• Drone bees are all males.
• They have only one job and that is to mate with
  the queen.
• They live only 8 weeks.

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Bees have three body parts
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The Head

• A bee has two big eyes, one on each side of the
  head.
• It has three more eyes-small ones- on top of the
  head.
• Bees see all the colors we see except red.
• They have two feelers on the top of their heads
  called antennae.

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The Thorax

• Bees have two pair of wings located on the
  thorax.
• All the legs are located on the thorax.

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The Abdomen

• The abdomen is composed of nine segments.
• The wax glands are located in the abdomen.
• The sting is contained in a pocket at the end of
  the abdomen in adult females.

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The Hive

• It is made of thousands of tiny rooms.
• Each cell has six sides.
• Honey is stored in some cells.
• Other cells are nurseries.

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The Nursery

• The queen lays the egg.
• It takes three days to hatch.
• Out crawls a tiny wormlike creature known as a
  larva.
• Worker bees feed the larva royal jelly for three
  days. The larva spins a silk cocoon.
• Inside the cocoon the larva becomes a pupa.
• It takes three weeks to become a fully grown
  worker bee.

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The Egg
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The Larva and Cocoon
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The Pupa
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Bee Communication

• The bee performs a dance to where the food is
  at.
• The dance helps the bees find food faster.
• The dance tells bees that food is close or far
  away or which way to fly.