The Honey Makers: A Buzzzz worthy Report An Interactive Presentation By: Stacey Gillette ED 205-16

Table of Contents Insects: Are Honey Bees Insects? Where do Honey Bees Live? Who Lives in the Hive ? Sound Clip Link Don’t Forget the Baby Bees! What do Honey Bees Eat? What else do Bees do? Inside of the Hive Honey: How do Bees do it? Video Link Author’s Biography Email Link Works Cited Images Link Sound Clip Link Video Link Quit

Insects: Are Honey Bees Insects?

Where do Honey Bees Live?

Who Lives in the Hive ?

Sound Clip Link

Don’t Forget the Baby Bees!

What do Honey Bees Eat?

What else do Bees do?

Inside of the Hive

Honey: How do Bees do it?

Video Link

Author’s Biography

Email Link

Works Cited

Images Link

Sound Clip Link

Video Link

Insects Are Honey Bees Insects? Characteristics of an Insect: Always have 6 Legs Always have 3 Body Sections Head, Thorax, & Abdomen Usually have Wings Usually have Antennae Honey Bee = Insect! Other Common Insects: Dragonfly Beetle Ant Mosquito Quit

Characteristics of an Insect:

Always have 6 Legs

Always have 3 Body Sections

Head, Thorax, & Abdomen

Usually have Wings

Usually have Antennae

Honey Bee = Insect!

Where do Honey Bees Live? Wild Bees have always lived in hollow trees or logs. Man-made materials include: Straw, Wood, and Pottery Whatever it’s made out of, a bee home is called a hive. Wooden Hive Tree Hive Straw Hives Clay Hive Quit

Wild Bees have always lived in hollow trees or logs.

Man-made materials include: Straw, Wood, and Pottery

Whatever it’s made out of, a bee home is called a hive.

Who Lives in the Hive? In a honey bee colony, there are 3 castes, or kinds, of bees: The Queen : Her job is to lay eggs, eggs, and more eggs! The Workers : They are all female bees that usually do not lay eggs. Workers do almost all the jobs in the hive. The Drones : They are all the male bees. A male bee’s only job is to mate with the queen. Quit Queen Bee Worker Bee Drone Bee Let’s Listen to a Bee’s Buzz!

The Queen : Her job is to lay eggs, eggs, and more eggs!

The Workers : They are all female bees that usually do not lay eggs. Workers do almost all the jobs in the hive.

The Drones : They are all the male bees. A male bee’s only job is to mate with the queen.

Don’t Forget the Baby Bees! In addition to the three types of bees living in the hive — there are also baby bees! In order to become adult bees…the babies must go through multiple stages: egg stage, larvae stage, pupa stage, and finally, the metamorphosis stage! Depending on which type of bee it is, this process can take anywhere from 16-24 days. Queen bees take the least time to develop; whereas, drones and worker bees take longer. Quit

In addition to the three types of bees living in the hive — there are also baby bees!

In order to become adult bees…the babies must go through multiple stages: egg stage, larvae stage, pupa stage, and finally, the metamorphosis stage!

Depending on which type of bee it is, this process can take anywhere from 16-24 days.

Queen bees take the least time to develop; whereas, drones and worker bees take longer.

What do Honey Bees Eat? Bees gather nectar A sweet liquid in flowers Bees carry nectar in a pouch called the honey stomach Bees also collect pollen Tiny, colorful grains in flowers Pollen grains rub off the flower and stick to the bee’s fur. The bee uses her front and middle legs to pack the pollen into pollen baskets which she carries on her back legs. Honey Bees make this sweet liquid from nectar and pollen Quit

Bees gather nectar

A sweet liquid in flowers

Bees carry nectar in a pouch called the honey stomach

Bees also collect pollen

Tiny, colorful grains in flowers

Pollen grains rub off the flower and stick to the

bee’s fur. The bee uses her front and middle legs to pack the pollen into pollen baskets which she carries on her back legs.

Honey

Bees make this sweet liquid from nectar

and pollen

What else do Honey Bees do? Bees help flowers make seeds As bees visit flowers, they pollinate them. This means they carry pollen from one flower to another. When a grain of pollen joins with an egg cell in a flower, a seed begins to grow. Many plants cannot make seeds unless bees pollinate their flowers. Bees help make food for people Bees pollinate many crop plants; plants that give us our food. Some examples include: apples, blueberries, squash, and oranges. Bees have many important tasks! A bee pollinating an apple blossom WE NEED BEES! Quit

Bees help flowers make seeds

As bees visit flowers, they pollinate them. This means they carry pollen from one flower to another.

When a grain of pollen joins with an egg cell in a flower, a seed begins to grow.

Many plants cannot make seeds unless bees pollinate their flowers.

Bees help make food for people

Bees pollinate many crop plants; plants that give us our food.

Some examples include: apples, blueberries, squash, and oranges.

Inside of the Hive The inside of the hive is covered with beeswax The bees shape the wax into comb—thousands of little containers called cells - Each cell is a six-sided hexagon shape. Can you count the sides? Let’s try! Quit

The inside of the hive is covered with beeswax

The bees shape the wax into comb—thousands of little containers called cells

- Each cell is a six-sided hexagon shape.

Honey: How do Bees do it? Bees add chemicals to the nectar from glands inside their heads. The chemicals change the nectar-sugars into honey-sugars. Bees then spread droplets out and fan them with their wings. This dries up most of the water—leaving the honey thick, sticky, and extra-sweet. *Remember: There are all types of bees—but only Honey Bees make honey!* Let’s watch bees in action! Quit

Bees add chemicals to the nectar from glands inside their heads.

The chemicals change the nectar-sugars into honey-sugars.

Bees then spread droplets out and fan them with their wings.

This dries up most of the water—leaving the honey thick, sticky, and extra-sweet.

*Remember: There are all types of bees—but only Honey Bees make honey!*

Let’s watch bees in action!

About the Author My name is Stacey Gillette. I’m a student at Grand Valley State University. That’s in Allendale, MI. My major is English and my minor is Elementary Education. I hope to graduate in April of 2010 and become an elementary school teacher. I hope to teach 2 nd or 3 rd grade. If you have any questions or comments, please email me! Thank you for checking out my PowerPoint presentation! Quit

My name is Stacey Gillette. I’m a student at Grand Valley State University. That’s in Allendale, MI.

My major is English and my minor is Elementary Education.

I hope to graduate in April of 2010 and become an elementary school teacher. I hope to teach 2 nd or 3 rd grade.

If you have any questions or comments, please email me!

Thank you for checking out my PowerPoint presentation!

Works Cited Text Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus: Inside a Beehive. New York: Scholastic Inc, 1996. Gibbons, Gail . The Honey Makers. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1997. Images Degen, Bruce. The Magic School Bus: Inside a Beehive. New York: Scholastic Inc, 1996. Gibbons, Gail . The Honey Makers. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1997. http://images.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi Sound Byte http://www.entertonement.com/clips/2378/Insects/Bees/Animals/Bee-sound Video http://www.teachertube.com/v.php?viewkey=5cc1b8556a8868469a55 Quit

Text

Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus: Inside a Beehive. New York: Scholastic Inc, 1996.

Gibbons, Gail . The Honey Makers. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1997.

Images

Degen, Bruce. The Magic School Bus: Inside a Beehive. New York: Scholastic Inc, 1996.

Gibbons, Gail . The Honey Makers. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1997.

http://images.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

Sound Byte

http://www.entertonement.com/clips/2378/Insects/Bees/Animals/Bee-sound

Video

http://www.teachertube.com/v.php?viewkey=5cc1b8556a8868469a55