Could you tell someone the way to the grocery store by dancing?
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Bees dance to show other bees where food is
Bees are useful insects because they make honey that people use as food
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They also make wax which is used to make candles and other products
Honeybees live in a nest called a hive
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Vocabulary:
honeybees
A kind of bee that makes honey and wax that people use
Each hive has a queen which is the largest bee
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She mates with the male bees, called drones, then lays eggs for the
rest of her life
Most of the bees in a hive are workers that do most of the jobs
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They build the hive and look for food
When they find flowers, they dance to show others where the food is
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Then many workers fly to the flowers to feed
They collect nectar and pollen from the flowers
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Vocabulary:
pollen
A yellow powder that is made in a flower and helps with pollination of the flower
The nectar turns to honey in the stomach of a bee
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The workers store the honey and pollen in the combs
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As they feed, bees carry pollen from one flower to another
Pollen helps flowers make seeds which is another way in which bees
are useful
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Something bites your arm and a bump starts to grow
It itches and is painful. What insect did that?
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To find a female, the male uses its antennae to pick up the sound of the
female’s wings
After they mate, the male dies!