Bee

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Bee
www.wmconnolley.org.uk/ bees/

• A honeybee hive is a social organization of bees
• A single colony contains 20,000 to 30,000 bees
• The colony gathers nectar using several worker
  bees spread over an area as wide as 40 square
  miles

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First Hand-drawn Picture

• Workers decide which bees in the hive will become
  queens
• The queen is larger than all other bees in the
  hive and makes several mating flights
• Shell mate with 10 or more males
• Only one laying eggs genetic heterogeneity

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Dissection Microscope Drawing

• Queen stores millions of sperm in her body-good
  up to 3 years (her potential lifespan
• Worker bees are all female 85 of the nest
• Workers have 3 life stages and each has specific
  roles

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Hand Lens Drawing

• Young workers(1-12 days old)-clean cells, nurse
  brood, tend queen
• Middled-aged workers(12-20 days old)-build comb,
  store nectar and pollen, ventilate nest
• Older workers(20-30 days or more old)-supply
  nectar

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Bee Antenna

• Males and Drones have one purpose in life to
  mate with the queen
• Bumblebees are superior to other bees in
  pollinating red clover, their tongue is 2.5mm
  longer than a honeybees

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NSES

• Standard E in every ages group applies to
  Bugscope. It applies because it has to do with
  the ability to understand technology and this is
  very important in Bugscope. The reason is that
  you use technology of the computer and
  microscopes to examine a particular bug and
  without understanding it you wouldnt be able to
  get the most out of the program.
• The authenticity of using the technologies
  involved, such as microscopes or ESEM are very
  authentic because they use the actually object
  youre looking at and just give you a closer and
  more detailed picture.

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3 Literature Sources

• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/hive.html
• http//www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1
  insects/bumblebeefox.html
• Encyclopedia

2 Ways to apply Bugscope

• Art class have students concentrate on drawing
  their specific insect
• Social Studies (especially geography) which
  insects live where and have student study that
  part of it