Gail Gibbons Fact Final Copy

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Fact #1

A bee hive has a queen bee, 100 drone bees, and thousands of female worker bees.

Fact #2

A bee has three body parts called the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. The stinger is only on females. The tongue is called the proboscis.

Fact #3

The queen is the biggest bee and she can live 3 to 5 years. The other bees live about 2 months.

Fact #4

Cells in the beehive are used for storing honey and for the queen’s eggs.The queen lays up to 2000 eggs a day!

First, a bee starts as an egg. Next, it becomes a larva. Then a pupa forms. Then, it makes a cocoon. Last through metamorphosis it becomes an adult bee.

When a bee comes out of its cell it’s a house bee, then a nurse bee, then a wax making bee, then a guard bee, and finally a forager bee.

Fact #7

Bees do the circle dance to tell other bees that the nectar is close. Bees do the wag tail dance to tell other bees that the nectar is faraway.

Fact #8

When bees bring nectar to the hive it can be mostly water.In order for nectar to become honey it needs to be about 18 percent water.

A beekeeper cuts honey with a hot knife.

Honeybees like to make their homes in dark places.

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