Honey Bees

A honey bee is any bee member of the genus Apis,it is primarily distinguished by the production of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax.

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LOCATION OF A HONEY BEE.
A Honey Bee's location or habitat is located in a forest or a field.

A Honey Bee's main prey is Nectar, Pollen, and Honey. But their predators are birds, rodents, reptiles , and insects.

Honey bees are keystone species in their environment . A keystone species is a species that has a role in an ecosystem. Honey bees are involved in the process of pollination which is one of the primary ways plants reproduce

A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.

A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honey bees and one queen. Worker honey bees are females, live for about 6 weeks and do all the work.

Larger than worker bees , the male honey bees which are called drones, they have no stingers and do no work at all. All they do is mate. Before winter or when they become low on food , female honey bees usually force surviving males out of the nest.

FACTS ABOUT HONEY BEES

• Honey bees have 6 legs, 2 compound eyes made of thousands tiny lenses (one on each side of the head)

FACTA ABOUT HONEY BEES

• It only takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.

FaACTS ABOUT HONEY BEES

• The bees brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame seed, yet it has a remarkable capacity to learn and remember things.

WORKS CITED

• benefits of honey.com
• ecologyhelp.weebly.com
• en.m.wikipedia.org

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