Insects are wonderful creatures, and bees are among the most interesting insects. They live and work together in a colony or hive. They must do this in order to stay alive, for bees need each other. And because they live and work together, and are able to help each other, they are called social creatures. Sometimes, there are as many as 60,000 bees living in a colony. Almost all the bees in the hive are called worker bees, for they do all the work of the hive. Other bees are called drones.
Drones do no work and there are not many of them. But the bee family could not get along without the drones. A drone is the father of the colony. All of the bees are either workers or drones, except one bee. This bee is the largest in the colony. She is the mother and is called the queen bee. A beehive is almost like a city, with every bee doing a certain kind of work. Some bees fly over finds, gathering food. They find their food. Including a sweet juice called nectar. Mainly in the flowers. The bees use the nectar to make honey, which is their main food. They also use the pollen from flowers. to make a different kind of food which we call beebread. Some of the worker bees are wax-makers. The wax which the wax-makers bees produce is used to make honeycombs in which the bees store their honey as well as their beebread. The honeycombs are also where the queen bee lays her eggs. Some bees are housekeepers who are also the scavengers of the hive. Then, there are the guards whose duty it is to make sure that no strangers enter the liver.
If a wasp or some other strange insect or a bee from another colony tries to enter the hive.the guard bees fight it and sting itself to death. These hundreds of worker bees must be supplied with fresh air while they are working in the hive. So. some of the bees move the air and bring in fresh air. But all of this work would be useless without the queen. The lays all the eggs. Without her, there would be no new bees to take the places of those that die. The hive would soon be empty. Because workers live only about six weeks. Does the way the bees divide up their work remind you of a community? In a city or a town. There are street cleaners, policemen, shopkeepers and many other kinds of workers. They help each other by doing different kinds of work. No one person does everything. But there is one very important difference between a bee community and a community of people. Men and woman plan the work of a community. They know they are helping each other and they know why they are helping each other. Bees do not think in the same way as we do. So.of course they cannot plan. They live together and help each other without knowing why they do so. They do not even know they are helping each other. One of the best examples of bees helping each other is the way a honey bee tells other honey bees where they can find food. A worker bee buzzes. By chance. Into a clump of flowers, especially rich in nectar.
It quickly returns to the hive and does a dance.wriggling its bode in patterns.Soon,others join the dance.Naturalists who have observed bees have understood the meaning of these patterns.They found that the speed of the turns that a bee makes shows the other bees the distance of the food from the hive.There is no end to what we can learn from the study of nature.Naturalists and scientists are people who ask questions endlessly.And out of their questions come their discoveries.But the more they find out,the more thereis to know.However,true scientists never gove up,and each day brings us more amazing discoverries about our wonderful world.
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