Bees are flying insects known for pollination and producing honey and beeswax. There are nearly 20,000 known bee species, including the European honey bee which lives in hexagonal honeycombs in beehives. In beehives there are three types of bees: a queen who lays eggs, workers who are female but infertile, and drones whose sole purpose is to fertilize the queen. Bees gather pollen which they transform into honey and store in honeycombs before humans extract it. Bees are essential to pollination and food production, but many are dying due to parasites, pesticides, and pollution, so conservation efforts are needed.

1. THE
BEES

2.  Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and
are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey
and beeswax.

3.  Pollination is the transfer of pollen grains from the anther of
the stamen to the stigma of the pistil.

4.  There are nearly 20,000 known
species of bees .
 Now we will see the honey bees.

5.  The European (or Western) honey bee, (Apis mellifera), is the
best known bee species and one of the best known of all
insects.

6. They live in the beehive. It is made of beeswax, and it
has some honeycombs formed with hexagons, they
make these hexagons to save space in the beehive and
work, because in this way they use less beeswax and
less energy.

7. Worker
In the beehive there
are three types of
bees:
Queen
Drone

8.  She is the only fertile female who puts fertilized eggs that give
origin to working unfertile bees and puts not fertilized eggs
that give origin to fertile drones, for a mechanism named
parthenogenesis.

9.  The workers are females smaller than the queen, the only
difference between them is that the workers aren´t fertile.
They live approximately 85 days.
 They are all his life working in the beehive(when they are
young) or gathering(when they are adults).

10.  The drones are the male bees in a
beehive. His only mission is to fertilize
the queen. They live approximately 3
months. When there is not enough food,
the drones are expelled by the workers
from the beehive

11.  First, the bee gathers the pollen. Later it fills his maw with this
substance and with one enzyme transforms it into glucose. This
bee gives the mixture to the workers. And they dehydrates and
adds enzymes that transform it into honey. After this process
the honey loses a lot of water (80 %).
The honey is deposited in the cells
The bee-keeper extracts the
honey of the honeycomb.

12.  Albert Einstein said: without bees the human beings only can
survive 4 years. But.... Why? The bees are very important in the
fertilization of plants, this way the fruits, food are formed. Food
that animals need to live...

13.  Many bees are dying: Due to a parasite that affects them when
they are in the egg and damages his intestine. They are born this
way:
 Due to pesticides, chemical products that the human beings use.
 Due to the pollution (climate change).

14.  We have to do everything possible to save the bees.If we do not
want to verify that what Albert Einstein said is true or a false...
 And remember if you found a bee, do not shout, do not scare
and the bee won´t sting you.

15. THE END.
Clara
García
Herráez