KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -House bees take the nectar inside the colony and pack it away in hexagon-shaped beeswax honey cells. They then turn the nectar into honey by drying it out using a warm breeze made with their wings. Once the honey has dried out, they put a lid over the honey cell using fresh beeswax – kind of like a little honey jar.

Detailed explanation-2: -But only one kind makes honey: the honeybee. This bee species lives in large families, or colonies, and can be found all over the world. Female “worker” bees produce honey from pollen and nectar that they collect from plants on their fuzzy bodies while pollinating.

Detailed explanation-3: -In order to extract honey from nectar, bees get to work and: Fly up to 55000 miles to collect nectar out of flowers and visits approximately 100 flowers! The worker bees store this nectar in the sacks in their stomachs known as honey stomach where the sugar is broken into simpler compounds.

Detailed explanation-4: -The life cycle of all insects, including honey bees, begins with eggs. During the winter season, a queen forms a new colony by laying eggs within each cell inside a honeycomb. Fertilized eggs will hatch into female worker bees, while unfertilized eggs will become drones or honey bee males.