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ees are wonderful and here’s why.
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BEES ARE A NECESSARY PART OF THE EARTH’S ECOSYSTEM.Slide3
BEES love flowers and help spread plant pollen.Slide4
Spreading pollen helps flowers multiply and grow.Slide5
There are several kinds of bees:Eusocial & Semisocial Bees
BumblebeeStingless beeHoney bee
Africanized honey bee
Cleptoparasitic BeesCuckoo bee
Solitary & Communal BeesOrchard Mason beeEastern Carpenter beeAlfalfa Leafcutter bee
Hornfaced bee SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeeSlide6
A majority of bee species live in a hive.
Up to 100,000 individual bees can live in one hive!
Can you imagine the patience necessary to live with that many roommates?!
SOUCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee#Bumblebees Slide7
There is one queen bee in every hive who lays eggs.SOUCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_beeSlide8
A queen bee can lay up to 2,000 eggs every day! She lays more eggs than her own body weight everyday!
SOUCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_beeSlide9
Even though all bees have the same Scientific classification, they all have different traits that make them special.
KINGDOM
ANIMALIA
PHYLUM
ARTHROPODA
CLASS
INSECTA
ORDER
HYMENOPTERA
SUBORDERAPOCRITA
SUPERFAMILY
APOIDEASOUCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_beeSlide10
But the best bees make deliciously sweet honey!