- Bees live in colonies with a queen, workers, and drones.
- They pollinate flowers, which helps plants grow fruit and seeds.
- Bees make honey by collecting nectar from flowers and storing it in their hive.
1. The students find the beehive in a tree near the school.
2. Worker bees are females.
3. The bees are putting nectar into the cells of the honeycomb.
4. Bees turn nectar into honey by adding enzymes and fanning their wings to evaporate water.
5. The students finally find nectar in the flowers outside the school.
Tim’s grandpa doesn’t sell honey during the winter because bees don’t collect nectar in winter — flowers aren’t blooming, so there’s no nectar to gather. Bees survive on stored honey they made during warmer months.
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