Term 3 Inquiry - Dance Around the World

Term 2 Inquiry - 'Beeing Responsible'

Helpful Honeybees OPENING STATEMENT Honeybees are social insects. Honeybees have been around for millions of years. Honeybees are scientifically known as the Apis Meliferra which means honey carrying bee. Honeybees have one hundred and seventy odrents receptors compared to sixty two in fruit flies and seventy nine in mosquitoes. Bees can only see in the colour blue, bees are attracted to blue and black. One bee on its own is unlikely to do much damage to a person when a group of bees get together it’s a different matter. A buzzing angry swarm is terrifying –and dangerous. Honeybees have exceptional olfactory abilities including kin recognition signals social communication within the hive and odour recognition for finding food their sense of smell DESCRIPTION Honeybees have a thorax, antennae, three pairs of wings, three pairs of legs with a pollen press on the back of their legs for carrying pollen a thick waist a thick coat of body hair two compound eyes 3 simple eyes on the top of their head made out of thousands of tiny lenses. Honeybees have a stinger that is barbed and a poison sac in their stomach they have four membranes. BEHAVIOUR A hive of honeybees will fly ninety thousand miles the equivalent of three orbits around the world to collect one kilogram. Honeybees’ wing strokes incredibly fast two hundred beats per second this makes their famous distance buzz. The queen bee can lay up to 1,500 eggs a day. A honeybee can fly up to six miles and as fast as fifteen miles. The average worker bee produces 1/12 of a teaspoon in her life time. Honeybees perform a waggle dance to tell the other bees were the flowers are. LOCATION Honey bees live in colonies called hives. Honeybees live in most tropical and subtropical regions and live in all continents but the North Pole. GENERAL STATMENT There are one hundred thousand types of bees. Honey is the only food that contains all substances.