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GRADE 4 Start Up G.K
LIFE-CYCLE

How is We all know that honey comes from Bee magic

bees, but how do these little creatures
make something so tasty? Come, let us Answer these simple questions orally.
see the honey bees at work…
1. Name the sweet, watery, liquid produced
by flowers.
made ? 1 Nectar collection Nectar transfer 2. There are three main types of bees in the

Worker bees collect nectar 2 When the nectar is in the hive – Queen bee, drone bees and worker
from flowers. Nectar is bee’s stomach it mixes with bees. True or false?
a sweet, watery liquid enzymes (special acids) that 3. A honey bee has two pairs of wings. True

4 Honey storage produced by flowers. The start changing it into honey. or false?
bee sucks nectar with its
When the water is reduced, the tongue which is like a juice The bee then returns to the 4. Which type of bee in the bee colony dies
honey becomes thick and sticky. straw. This nectar is stored in the hive and passes it to the after it stings an object?
The honey cells are honey bee’s stomach. house bees by throwing it
then capped. The out of its stomach through its 5. If you keep honey over a long period of
bees cover each cell mouth in the honey comb. time, it spoils. True or false?
of honey with a thin 6. Only the honey bee makes honey. Other
beeswax cap. Changing nectar to types of bees do not make honey. True
3 thick honey or false?
The role of the honey
bee stops here. How do When nectar is collected, 7. The only work of the queen bee is to lay

humans get this honey? the water in it is high about eggs. True or false?
60%-80%. Once the nectar 8. With what do the honey bees cap the
is in the hive, the water is honey in the honey cells?
reduced to 13%-18%. This is
done by many house bees 9. Honey bees eat honey more during the
fanning their wings near the winter season. True or false?
5 Honey extraction bee hive. 10. A single honey bee makes only one-

Bee keepers remove honey from the hive That is why a bee hive is twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its
when they know that the hive is full of honey. always buzzing with bees! lifetime. True or false?
They do this by brushing and shaking bees

from each comb. However, a beekeeper has Step 6: Honey is packed
to use various guards to protect himself from 6 Info-bites
bee stings. Imagine a thousand bees swarming The honey so Worker bees are female
at you! collected is then bees that do all the work
processed and in a bee colony. They also
packed in jars to protect the bee hive. These

be supplied to are the bees that will sting
our homes. you if they feel threatened.
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