Honeybees
Honey Bee Vocabulary
Honey Bee Vocabulary
- Abdomen - rear section of bee that contains the stinger and other organs.
- Antennae - sensors on the bees head that are used to smell with.
- Barb - pointy thorns that stick out of the stinger making it hard to remove.
- Bee Dance - used to show other bees where nectar/flowers are.
- Beekeeper - someone who cares for and raises bees.
- Colony - a group of bees living together.
- Compound Eye - large eye with many sections which enable a bee to see all around.
- Drone - Male bee whose only job is to mate with the queen.
- Hive - a bees home, where it lives with other bees and produces honey.
- Honey - food produced by bees.
- Honeycomb - area where honey is stored, also called cells.
- Insect - an animal with an exoskeleton, 3 body parts and 6 legs.
- Larvae -second stage of bee, grub like stage, eats beebread.
- Mandibles - plier like jaws that are part of the bees mouth.
- Nectar - the sweet juice produced by flowers, gathered by bees and turned into honey.
- Nurse Bee - the bees that take care of the eggs, larvae and pupas.
- Pollen - small spores from a plant that appear as a dust and are necessary for plant reproduction.
- Pollen basket - area where bees carry the pollen on their bodies (hind legs).
- Pollination - the act of transferring pollen from one flower to the other.
- Proboscis - combined area of tongue and mandibles.
- Queen Bee - the only bee that produces eggs.
- Scout Bee - the bee that goes out and looks for flowers/nectar.
- Spiracles - holes in the sides of bees which they breathe through.
- Swarm - when a new queen leaves the hive with other bees to start a new hive.
- Thorax - the middle section of the bees body, where the legs are connected.
- Wax - produced by bees to make the hive cells.
- Worker Bee - guards hive, gathers nectar, makes honey, repairs hive and cleans it. All workers are female bees
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