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ALL ABOUT BEES
WARMING-UP ACTIVITY
What do you associate with the
word “BEE”? Think and write
down as many associations with
this insect as possible. These
can be all parts of speech.
There are around twenty hundred types of bees In the world.
Most of them haven’t been described so the numer of them may be
much larger.
The smallest kinds of bees are dwarfish bees (western-asiatic) they
are up to 0,2 mm high. The largest bees are called Megachile Pluto,
which are up to 40 mm high.
Honey bees live in clusters or possessions. In one luster there live
abort twenty thousand bees, although sometimes it happens that
there are up to 100,000. Amongst them there is only one queen,
hundreds of drones and thousands of workwomen.
Workwomen are females but they do not proliferate. The queen
provides brood. Drones arem ale bees and they do not hale stings.
Bees communicate by means of dances and emiting sounds. The
insects without stings can communicate only thanks to sounds.
The dance depends on the angle of sunlight dewing.
During the flight a bee makes 350-435 wing movements per
second.
An average outreach of bee flight is 3 km. The maximal outreach
can be 10 km and more.
The bees have to visit about 4 mln of flowers In order to gather
nectar for making 1 kilo of honey.
During one flight for nectar a bee visits from 50 to 100 flowers.
The gathering bees take the nectar from flowers, they add first
enzymes, and bring it to their beehive. In their beehive they give