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1 Honey bee By Jerome

2 The bee is an insect and the bee is furry.
Introduction The bee is an insect and the bee is furry.

3 Name Bee and its special name is Mellifera.

4 Appearance A bee is black and yellow, the bee also has things like a hairy thorax, sharp stinger, six legs, wavy antennae, two compound eyes, hairy abdomen, grey wings and other things.

5 Locomotion The bees wings make the bee fly. The bee can also jump and walk. Bees have wings because they need to be fast to find food and if they need to find a new home, their wings will help them be fast.

6 Diet Bees are vegetarians and they feed on nectar and pollen from flowers, also they eat honey, which they make from nectar.

7 Habitat Carpenter bees burrow into wood, either in dead trees, or in buildings, fences or telegraph poles. Domestic honey bees live in artificial hives. The worker bees make wax and make a hive for the bees to live in.

8 Life cycle The queen bee lays the egg. After a few weeks the egg turns into a larva. When the larva about five days old, the worker bees cover the opening with wax. The larva covers itself with a cocoon. It is going into the pupa stage . During this stage, which lasts about three weeks, the pupas body will change and change and change until it is a… grown up bee

9 Enemies The bees predators are humans, bears, black spiders and some mammals.

10 Something special There are twenty thousand types of bees. No one really knows how many wasp species there are , but its probably more than one hundred thousand ! A queen bee can lay nearly two thousand eggs in a day! In her whole life time, she can have over a million babies.


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