Benefits of Honey
Use the materials here to learn about honey and how it is produced.
Some of the things you learn may surprise you!
The Bumble Bee Pages
Bumblebees are large, hairy insects with a lazy buzz and clumsy,
bumbling flight. Many of them are black and yellow, and along
with ladybirds and butterflies are perhaps the only insects that
almost everyone likes.
Hey!
A Bee Stung Me!
Honeybees, wasps, hornets, fire ants, and yellow jackets may
look different and have different homes, but they all sting when
they are upset! If a person is stung by any of these insects,
the sting will feel a lot like a shot at the doctor's office.
Honeybee Information
Site
At Honeybee.tamu.edu we hope to provide general information about
bees, answer frequently asked questions and solve common problems
associated with honey bees, and serve beekeepers with regulatory
resources, specific disease and parasite information, and current
topics.
The
Honeybee Waggle Dance
Describes an improvisational skit that you could perform with
your siblings showing how a honey bee tells the others where
she has found a good source of pollen.
Dancing
under a Polarized Sky
Bees returning to the beehive after finding a good supply of
food will communicate to other bees by dancing at a particular
region in the comb: the dance floor.
