Honey bees~~

How do the little busy bee improve each shining hour, and gather honey all the day from every opening flower!

Buzz! What a busy honey bee! Honey bees make and do things that are helpful to humans. They are very interesting insects. Honey bees provide us with honey, royal jelly, beeswax,and propolis. They are very cooperative insects and have good colony structure. They are the prime pollinators of the planet. Honey bees are social insects. A typical hive is divided primarily into worker bees and drones, ruled by the queen. Now let’s go find out the wonderful things that bees do that help us!

Pollination

Since many of our pollinators are now scarce, we are dependent on the honey bee to pollinate our crops. Pollination starts when a field bee crawls around a plant blossom. The honey bee is dusted with pollen. Then the field bee flies over to another blossom with the pollen in its hair. When the bee lands, the pollen falls onto this blossom’s stigma. Now a fruit, vegetable or other crop can grow.


Farmers actually rented colonies of bees to pollinate their crops. Even though other insects pollinate crops too, honey bees are one of the few that are synchronized and managed with the development of crops. If honey bees didn’t pollinate, crops wouldn’t be able to grow. Without the pollination from the honey bees there would be one third less crops in the world than there is now...