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A honeybee can visit up to 10,000 flowers a day to get nectar and pollen. That makes only one
teaspoon of honey.
Egg
The queen bee lays many eggs. This is the first stage of a bee’s life. The worker bee takes 21 days to become an adult. The drone takes 24 and the queen takes 16 days.
Finally the honey is put into cells called honeycombs and then a cap of bees wax is put onto the top of the
honeycomb.
Then a beekeeper comes and puts the honey in jars to sell to people.
Interesting Facts
It takes one million flowers to make a pound of honey.
The female workers (forager bees) collect the nectar.
Honeybees communicate one way by doing a dance called the round dance which tells the estimate of the distance between the hive and the flowers.
Round Dance
Honeybees also have another dance called the waggle dance that they use to say the exact distance between the hive and the flowers.
Waggle Dance
Honeybees also smell to communicate. The smell is called pheromone. The worker bees smell this and it tells them if they can get back to work or have to help the queen.
Pheromone