1534 all about bees

There are around twenty hundred types of bees In the world.. The smallest kinds of bees are dwarfish bees western-asiatic they are up to 0,2 mm high.. The largest bees are called Megachi

ALL ABOUT BEES

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What do you associate with the word “BEE”? Think and write down as many associations with this insect as possible These can be all parts of speech

There are around twenty hundred types of bees In the world Most of them haven’t been described so the numer of them may be much larger

The smallest kinds of bees are dwarfish bees (western-asiatic) they are up to 0,2 mm high The largest bees are called Megachile Pluto, which are up to 40 mm high

Honey bees live in clusters or possessions In one luster there live abort twenty thousand bees, although sometimes it happens that there are up to 100,000 Amongst them there is only one queen, hundreds of drones and thousands of workwomen

Workwomen are females but they do not proliferate The queen provides brood Drones arem ale bees and they do not hale stings

Bees communicate by means of dances and emiting sounds The insects without stings can communicate only thanks to sounds The dance depends on the angle of sunlight dewing

During the flight a bee makes 350-435 wing movements per

second

An average outreach of bee flight is 3 km The maximal outreach can be 10 km and more

The bees have to visit about 4 mln of flowers In order to gather nectar for making 1 kilo of honey

During one flight for nectar a bee visits from 50 to 100 flowers.

The gathering bees take the nectar from flowers, they add first

enzymes, and bring it to their beehive In their beehive they give nectar to hive bees, which enrich the fresh liquid with aminoacids,

organic acids, further enzymes decomposing complex sugars into

simple sugars and spread the nectar across many cells to thicken it

As the nectar thickens, honey is spread to further, upper Wells, and

at the same time the bees enrich them with the organic

The ripe thick honey is ligated that is the Wells are closed thanks to

a thin laser of wax

The bee is the only insect, whose food produced for themselves, is eaten by humans

Bees have been producing honey in the same way for 150 mln years

Honey consists of: 80% of natural sugars 18% of water, 2% of mineral elements, vitamins, proteins, dust

Exercise 1

Answer the questions in your own words but basing on the text above Write the answers down.

1 What are drones?

2 What are workwomen and what’s their role?

3 How is the smallest kind of bees called?

4 Where do bees live?

5 How is honey made and what ingredients does it have?

Exercise 2

Think on the questions below and try to give your own

opinion.

1 Do you like bees? If yes/no, tell us why.

2 Are bees useful? Justify your opinion.

3 What do you think, when do bees sting most often?

4 Have you ever been stung by a bee? If yes, what kind

of remedy did you use?

5 Have you ever seen a beehive?

Exercise 3

What these numbers refer to in the text?

50-100 

4 mln 

0,2 mm 

350-435 

3 km 

10,000 