If the nectar is distant from the hive, the scout bee does a figure-eight dance (Waggle Dance). If the nectar is 30 degrees to the right of the sun, the dance will be performed at about 2:00. If the nectar is in the direction of the sun, the dance will be performed straight up the walls of the hive: if the map were a clock, they would dance toward 12:00. When they come back, they do a dance that tells the other bees not only how far the nectar is, but also the direction in which to travel using the sun as a reference point. Scout honeybees go out in search of good nectar and pollen sources. For honeybees, it is often referred to as a dance. What is the purpose of the scout bee’s dance? Īll animals and insects use some form of communication.
The total development time varies a bit among the three castes of bees, but the basic miraculous process is the same: 24 days for drones, 21 days for worker bees, and 16 days for queens. Honey bees develop in four distinct life cycle phases: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. They die when they mate, or if they have not mated by the beginning of winter, the workers kick them out of the hive where they are left to die.Įxplain and draw the life cycle of the honeybee. Their only purpose in life, and only job in the hive, is to mate with the queen. It takes a drone bee 24 days to develop from an egg to an adult. They are recognizable by their very large eyes. The queen is fed by the worker bees, and eats up to 80 times her weight daily.ĭrones are the males of the species. Queen bees can live more up to six years, but her usual lifespan in a hive is two years. In her lifetime, she can lay over 600,000 eggs. She lays her own weight in eggs every day in summer, from 1,500 2,400 eggs per day. She must be at least 20 meters in the air to mate. Queens mate one time in their life with 6-8 drones over a 2-7 day period. She produces special glandular secretions called “queen substance“, which is a pheromone used to hold the colony together and stimulates the workers to maintain the hive. It takes the queen bee 16 days to develop from an egg to a queen. The queen is the largest bee in the hive. The beehive is made up of the queen (usually only one per hive), drones (from 2 – 300 individuals), and workers bees(between 10,000 – 100,000, depending on the season). During winter, they live 4–5 months, taking care of the queen and keeping her warm. They keep the hive clean, take care of the brood (eggs and larvae) such as feeding them royal jelly, attend the queen, maintain the temperature of the hive by fanning their wings, secret wax and build combs, guard the hive, and perform the all-important job of collecting nectar and pollen.ĭuring late spring, summer and fall, a worker bee will live only about 6 weeks.
The duties of the worker bees are many and varied. It takes a worker bee 21 days to develop from an egg to an adult. Worker bees are the smallest of the species, about half the weight of the queen and the drones Within a colony, name the 3 types of bees and what are their responsibilities. The egg hatches into a worm-like larva, which eventually pupates into an adult bee. The queen lays an egg in a cell in the wax comb (all the immature bees are called the brood). Workers - females who gather food, make honey, build the six-sided honeycomb, tend eggs, and guard the hiveīees undergo complete metamorphosis. This pollinates many flowers (fertilizing them and producing seeds).Īll the members of the hive are related to each other. In the process of going from flower to flower to collect nectar, pollen from many plants gets stuck on the bee's pollen baskets (hairs on the hind legs). They eat nectar (a sweet liquid made by flowers) which they turn into honey. The three body parts are the head, thorax, and abdomen (the tail end).īees can fly about 15 mph (24 kph). Like all insects, bees have six legs, a three-part body, a pair of antennae, compound eyes, jointed legs, and a hard exoskeleton. Honeybees are social insects that live in hives. Go to Enchanted Learning to print a Honey Bee They swarmed around me like bees,but they were consumed as quickly as burning thorns in the name of the Lord I cut them down.ĭraw the honey bee and tell how it is different from other bees and other insects. Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. 5 What is the purpose of the scout bee’s dance?įind in the Bible several verses that speak about bees.4 Explain and draw the life cycle of the honeybee.3 Within a colony, name the 3 types of bees and what are their responsibilities.2 Draw the honey bee and tell how it is different from other bees and other insects.1 Find in the Bible several verses that speak about bees.
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