ALL ABOUT BEES WARMING-UP ACTIVITY What 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 not proliferate The queen provides brood Drones arem ale bees and they 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 km The maximal outreach can be 10 km and more The bees have to visit about mln of flowers In order to gather nectar for making 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 Answer the questions in your own words but basing on the text above Write the answers down What are drones? What are workwomen and what’s their role? How is the smallest kind of bees called? Where bees live? How is honey made and what ingredients does it have? Exercise Think on the questions below and try to give your own opinion Do you like bees? If yes/no, tell us why Are bees useful? Justify your opinion What you think, when bees sting most often? Have you ever been stung by a bee? If yes, what kind of remedy did you use? Have you ever seen a beehive? Exercise What these numbers refer to in the text? 50-100 mln 0,2 mm 350-435 km 10,000