The Colony by Jennifer Miller https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9 Made with ♥ en-us 2017-11-07 22:41:17 UTC 2026-02-04 10:28:11 UTC hello@padlet.com -Worker bees are typically females -Worker bees have pollen baskets, beeswax-secreting glands, and a well-developed honey sac -They typically lives around 6 weeks The worker bee works non-stop For the first 3 days of it’s life, it cleans the hive -They collect nectar, pollen, and water, convert the nectar into honey, clean, defend the hive, secrete wax, and build the honeycomb -The worker bees also care for the larvae by feeding it -the workers make the royal jelly out of the hypo-pharyngeal glands situated in their head -If the worker bees have to choose a new queen, they choose a couple cells and feed them queen secretion, which is called “royal jelly” -The worker bees usually don’t mate or lay eggs -If the queen bee dies or leaves then the worker bees select a larva to become the next queen bee and only feed that bee royal jelly -The queen bee is stronger than a worker bee -The queen bee’s body structure is much bigger and more powerful the a worker bee’s -She has a much bigger abdomen then the worker bees and have sharp teeth lining her jaw -The queen bee live 1-3 years old -The queen bees are the main eggs layers -The queen bee’s main purpose is to produce offspring and can lay up to 1,500 eggs a day -There is only one queen bee in every hive -Queen bee doesn’t have pollen baskets, beeswax-secreting glands, or a honey sac -The queen bee makes her own nest -If two queens are born around the same time, then they fight until one stings the other to death -A queen bee will go out to mate with a drone, only once in her life 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/206878134 2017-11-14 18:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/206878134 The honeycomb has six sides called cells -The cells in the honeycomb are made for the queen to lay eggs in -Honeycombs are usually located in open spaces like a hole in a tree -The honeycomb is made of beeswax produced by the worker bees -Bees also collect propolis, or bee glue, from specific types of tree, these are meant to fix cracks in the honeycomb -At about 10 days old the bees develop beeswax-producing glands that are in their abdomens -They eat a lot of honey, then the sugar in the honey makes wax -The wax comes out of small pores in the bee's body and form white flakes -A bees usually makes about 8 flakes at a time -The bees will then use it’s abdomen legs to put the flakes in its mouth and chew it until it forms the wax -The worker bee will then place the wax on the part it’s building of the honeycomb -Worker bees usually make wax for 6 days of it’s life -Beeswax is yellow 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/206891853 2017-11-14 18:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/206891853 Swarming is when bees set out to find and make a new colony -The swarm will bunch up around something like a branch, and workers called scouts will go out and look for a new place to build their colony -When the scouts return they perform a special “dance” to tell the other scouts the location of the new colony -The scouts look at one another's places and determine which is best -They then “signal” the swarm and the streaker bees know where it is and lead the way with the queen behind -Reasons for swarming could be because their old colony got too crowded -Also the queen might just want to start a new colony 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/206895266 2017-11-14 18:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/206895266 Some diseases include: European foul-brood and American foul-brood -Some diseases can turn the bees into a gummy-like mass -The honey bee mite is a parasite that attacks the bees -Some enemies of bees include: mice, birds, bears, squirrels, Argentine ants, skunks, raccoons, and opossums -Some animals that eat bees are skunks and dragonflies -An insect called the bee assassin eats the bees while they are pollinating -The wax moth eats beeswax in hives and could destroy a weak colony -Bees try to defend their hive by stinging -Sometimes the stings scare away the predator, but sometimes they don’t 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/206895903 2017-11-14 18:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/206895903 A queen bee next to a worker bee on some honeycomb 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/206897647 2017-11-14 18:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/206897647 Cells of Honeycomb 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207019477 2017-11-15 01:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207019477 A swarm of bees on a tree branch 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207019866 2017-11-15 01:09:21 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207019866 A honeybee as the host of a honeybee mites (the two dots on its abdomen) 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207020519 2017-11-15 01:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207020519 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207297075 2017-11-15 16:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207297075 Piece of Honeycomb made out of beeswax 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207316052 2017-11-15 17:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207316052 A bird eating a bee 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207317252 2017-11-15 17:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207317252 This project relates to the book Stung because they are both focused on bees. Stung is about what could happen if bees went extinct and it shows the importance of bees in our society. 10128722 https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207448195 2017-11-15 21:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/10128722/verj8sirvrg9/wish/207448195