Bees are flying insects known for pollination, honey, and beeswax production. There are approximately 20,000 bee species. Bees communicate through pheromones transmitted via mouth and antennas. The life cycle of a honeybee includes egg, larva/prepupa, pupa, and adult stages over approximately 3 weeks. Bees produce honey from flower nectar using enzymes in their mouths and store it in honeycombs.

2.  Bees are flying insects similar to wasps
 They are known because they produce
pollination, honey and beeswax
 There are around 20.000 types of bees

3.  The first encounter of humans with the bees was
in prehistoric times, when humans gathered
honey
 The first beekeepers where the Egyptians, and
they had the same beehives as nowadays

4.  Pollination is the transfer of pollen grains from
the anther to the stigma of the pistil
 Wind and insects, such as bees and butterflies,
disperse the pollen

5.  Drones are male honey bees. They develop from eggs
that have not been fertilized, and they cannot sting
 Queen: She is the main female but she only puts the
eggs an eats royal jelly
 Workers: They are females and they have to do all the
work of the beehive by themselves

6.  Bees can comunicate between then by
pheromones
 Pheromones are messenger subtances that
circulate through the mouth and the antennas
of the bees to get all the information

7.  Development of honey bees is similar to the
metamorphosis in butterflies. These are the
stages of development and the duration of
each stage:
1. Egg (3 days)
2. Larva & prepupa (8 days)
3. Pupa (9 days)
4. Adult

8.  The main predator that attacks the bees is the
bee-eater because it’s able to destroy a whole
beehive
 There are more predators like
wasps, mice, beetles and ants, but they are less
dangerous

9.  Honey is produced by bees with the nectar of the
flowers and with some enzymes that they have in
their mouth
 They stored the honey in the honeycombs, where
it matures

10.  Both workers and the queen feed on royal jelly
during the first three days of the larval stage.
Then the workers change to a diet of pollen and
nectar or diluted honey, while those larvae
selected for queen bees continue eating royal
jelly.

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END By Carmen García