bees

Scavenger Hunt

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All about Bees

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Label the parts of a bee:

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All about Bees

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Label the parts of a bee:
thorax antenna wings tail
pollen basket tube like tongue
abdomen compound eye leg

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 Appearance Appearance

Bees belong to the insect family They have short, thick bodies
which means that they have six that are covered with hair.
legs and three parts to their
body, which are the head, the
thorax and the abdomen.
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Appearance
Appearance
Bees can be anywhere from the
size of a grain of rice all the way
Bees have five eyes!
to the length of your big finger!

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Bees have two pairs of wings –
Fore wings and Hind
wings. Fore Wings are bigger
than Hind wings.
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Bees have a long tongue that
helps them to collect the nectar
from the flowers.
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 Habitat
Bees live in colonies that contain
the queen bee, the worker bee
and the drone.
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Habitat
Bumble bees are very social bees
and live in large "families".
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Habitat
Worker bees clean the hive,
collecting pollen and nectar to
feed the colony and they take
care of the offspring.
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Habitat
Bees can be found in almost
every place in the entire world,
except Antarctica.
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 Habitat Habitat

Bees need flowers in order to One of the ways that bees

survive, so they can be found in protect themselves is by building
any habitat that has their hive in a very secret spot.
flowering plants..
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Habitat Habitat
The average beehive can house Bees work hard to keep their hive
around 50,000 bees! healthy - they clean it and
throw out any rubbish that
builds up.
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 Diet
Diet
Nectar is a liquid that comes
Bees mainly eat the nectar and
from flowers which is very
pollen from flowers.
sugary and gives the bees
energy.
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Diet Diet

Bees need nectar to give them
energy to as fly, clean the hive,
and build the comb to store the
honey.
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If bees are sick or injured it can
be helpful if adults put some
water mixed with sugar out for
them to drink and get some
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 Fun Facts Fun Facts

Bees help to pollinate flowers, Worker bees go from one flower

which is how they can bloom to another, collecting nectar. In
and grow more. one collection trip, a bee visits
50 to 100 flowers!
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Fun Facts Fun Facts

Bees can see all colours except There are about 20,000 different
the colour red! species of bees in the world.

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Fun Facts
Honey bees are great flyers. They
Bees have an amazing sense of fly at a speed of around 25km
smell. per hour and beat their wings
200 times per second.
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Fun Facts
Fun Facts
There are many species of
Honeybees flap their wings up to
bumble bees that are listed as
200 times a second.
endangered.

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