What Are Bee Hives For?
Bees make their hives to store food and shelter the bees. Bees make their
hives to protect them. The bees store anything from eggs, to pollen, to honey.
When the bee hive is getting built by the bees, the bees produce beeswax
to create a strong and hard interior of the beehive. They use the beeswax
to make these perfect little hexagon shapes in the hive. They store the food
and eggs in them. These are called honeycombs.
hives to protect them. The bees store anything from eggs, to pollen, to honey.
When the bee hive is getting built by the bees, the bees produce beeswax
to create a strong and hard interior of the beehive. They use the beeswax
to make these perfect little hexagon shapes in the hive. They store the food
and eggs in them. These are called honeycombs.
Jobs Inside The Hive
The three main types of bees are the worker bee, drone bee and the queen bee. When the queen lays an egg she can either lay a fertilized egg or an unfertilized egg. A fertilized egg hatches into a worker bee or queen bee, while an unfertilized egg will hatch into a drone bee. A worker bee is only female and they have all the jobs to do from collecting nectar, producing honey, keeping the hive clean, guarding the hive and making wax. For every 100 worker bees there are, there is a drone bee. Unlike the female worker bees, drones do not have stingers and gather neither nectar nor pollen. The drone bees primary job is to mate with a queen bee. After mating season the drone bee gets kicked out of the hive. The drone either dies of starvation or freezes. The queen bee is the most important bee of them all and only has one job, she produces new bees. Without the queen bee or a drone the whole hive would die out.
Our report will:
- Bee interesting!
- Give information about a topic of our choice related to bees.
- Show a clear link to our planning.
- Start with an opening statement about our topic.
- Have at least 3 paragraphs. Each paragraph will have an opening statement and a
- series of facts related to that statement.
- Include some complex or compound sentence structures.
- Include at least one diagram, photograph, illustration or map to go with the text.
- Finish with a general statement about the topic.
- Use information from at least 3 different sources. This information will be written in our
- own words and we will write down our sources at the end of our report.
