The Honey Bee
I have been watching the honey bees work around my house and I love to watch them. I never paid any attention to them or knew anything about them until I started this class. This honey bee is feeding off of the red bud tree in my back yard. The pink bloom serves as food for the honey bee. This bee is called a worker. They carry pollen back to the nest. Every nest has a queen bee and her job is to lay eggs. The males that fertilize the eggs are called drones.
Size: The worker is 1/2"-5/8" in length. The queen bee and the drones are larger.
Make up: The honey bee is yellow and black. They have hairy heads and eyes. They have one stinger in their abdomen and when they sting the abdomen is removed and they die within minutes.
Food: They drink the nectar and collect pollen from flowers storing them in their legs. When returning to the hive they regurgitate the nectar and other workers process it into honey.
Habitat: They are seen as they forage flowers. Their nests are located in tree cavities and bee keeper boxes. They pollinate the field crops and fruit trees in southern Missouri.
This picture was taken on a red bud tree in my back yard in South Fork Missouri. This is an Easter Sunday photo taken about 3:10 in the afternoon.
This is a great photo and good info. Our instructions must have been unclear, though. We wanted you to provide the photo and clues and let your classmates identify. For instance, you would not have identified the bee as a honey bee.
ReplyDeleteI guess we need to rewrite the instructions as you are not the only one to do this.