Bee  A honeybee hive is a social organization of bees  A single colony contains 20,000 to 30,000 bees  The colony gathers nectar using several worker bees spread over an area as wide as 40 square miles bees/

 Workers decide which bees in the hive will become queens  The queen is larger than all other bees in the hive and makes several mating flights  She’ll mate with 10 or more males  Only one laying eggs= genetic heterogeneity First Hand-drawn Picture

 Queen stores millions of sperm in her body-good up to 3 years (her potential lifespan  Worker bees are all female = 85% of the nest  Workers have 3 life stages and each has specific roles Dissection Microscope Drawing

 Young workers(1- 12 days old)-clean cells, nurse brood, tend queen  Middled-aged workers(12-20 days old)-build comb, store nectar and pollen, ventilate nest  Older workers( days or more old)- supply nectar Hand Lens Drawing

Bee Antenna  Males and Drones have one purpose in life – to mate with the queen  Bumblebees are superior to other bees in pollinating red clover, their tongue is 2.5mm longer than a honeybees

NSES  Standard E in every ages group applies to Bugscope. It applies because it has to do with the ability to understand technology and this is very important in Bugscope. The reason is that you use technology of the computer and microscopes to examine a particular bug and without understanding it you wouldn’t be able to get the most out of the program.  The authenticity of using the technologies involved, such as microscopes or ESEM are very authentic because they use the actually object you’re looking at and just give you a closer and more detailed picture.

3 Literature Sources   bumblebeefox.html bumblebeefox.html  Encyclopedia 2 Ways to apply Bugscope  Art class – have students concentrate on drawing their specific insect  Social Studies (especially geography) – which insects live where and have student study that part of it