Learning about Bees for Kids

     What do you know about bees? Bees are flying insects and they make honey. I know you already know these but let’s go to the fun facts to get to know more about these flying insects.

My drawing of a cute bee!

Fun Facts

• Male bees are called drones. 
• Male bees don’t have a stinger.
• When a bee stings, they will die afterward because their stings have little barbs. When it stings, the barb is ripped off from their tummy.
• Carpenter bees are not barbed so when they sting, they don’t die.
• Females bees are called worker and they maintain the beehive.
• A queen bee can lay 2,500 eggs a day.
• If the queen bee dies, the female bees will choose young larvae and they will feed it with a special food called royal jelly.
• Bee colonies are found in every continent except Antarctica, well probably because it’s cold there.
• One colony can produce 90 pounds of honey.
• A worker can only produce 1/12 teaspoon of honey.
• Smoke calm bees.
• Bees can see all the colors except the color red.

What does honey do?

     Honey can make you smarter, in fact, it’s the only insect food I’ve ever seen! Honey has minerals, vitamins, antioxidants and it also contains fructose and lots more. Fructose is a simple sugar found in fruits and vegetables.
   
     Honey can help you when you have a cough and cold and it can heal your wounds faster so honey is healthy to eat but be careful and don’t feed babies honey because it’s not safe for two years old so I told my mom not to feed my baby sister Hana because she might get sick.

     There are a lot of bees but only the honey bees make honey. Honey bees have two stomachs. One is where they store nectar called honey stomach then the other is where their food is digested. The sweet nectar from the honey stomach is delivered to the hive. From there, some of the workers chew on the nectar and puts the honey in the honeycombs. Then the beekeepers will harvest the honey and sell them or deliver them to stores.

     If I was a bee, I’d like to be the queen and lay as much as 2500 egg. Well, that’s the queen’s job anyway! Well, I hope you were able to learn something about the bees as much as I did!