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Queen Bees are female honey bees that lay eggs; their is only one queen bee in every colony. Queen bees mate with drones and are responsible for all the qualities of her colony.

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Worker bees are the largest group in the hive. They are unmated  female offspring of the queen. Their job is too mainly collect pollen or nectar, though they do much more.

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Honeycomb is created by female worker bees. The worker bees use beeswax to build the honeycomb. Honey combs are always built in horizontal, hexagonal patterns for maximum strength and volume.

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Beeswax is used to make honeycombs. Its estimated a honeybee must travel 150,000 miles to produce a pound of beeswax

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Bees swarm for many reasons. One reason is for lack of space. When a colony runs out space in its hive, it swarms. Bees also swarm to reproduce.

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This video is about bee colonies and how they function

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First, a replacement queen is picked by the current queen before she leaves. The queen and about 50-60% of her offspring will leave. Once they leave, the next queen takes over. This next queen can also choose to start a swarm after the initial swarm, known as an "after swarm". First, once the bees have left, they find a temporary location to rest about a stones throw away. Next, the scout bees will scout out the nearby areas for good location for the next hive. The scout bees will then democratically debate and vote on the next location for the hive. Then, after the decision has been made, "democratically," the bees then begin construction on the next hive.

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Bears, Argentine ants, and many other animals destroy bees hives in their search for honey. Skunks and dragonflies also eat bees. An insect called "bee assassin" feeds on bees it catches in flowers. Honey bee mites, another threat to bees, attack developing honey bees. These mites have destroyed thousands of hives in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Humans also threaten bees. Insecticides meant to kill other insects kill thousands of insects every year. Weed sprays also kill bees by killing weeds and their flowers which are an important source of bee food

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Bees too, both young and old, can contract diseases. There are many diseases bees can contract, but one, or two examples, are the European and American foul brood. These diseases cause bees to turn into a gummy lifeless mass.

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Stung is a book about theoretically what could happen if bees went extinct. In this dark future a bee flu occurs killing off bees and infecting people. A vaccine is released to the public but instead of helping it creates crazy mutant monster people. I gathered some info from this book, though not directly stated in my works cited. This book connects very much with what were doing because it talks a lot about bees and bee hives and some what mentions and references colonies. Like when it talks about how the fecs have hives and it in depth on bees and bee related facts that helped me make this project