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Bees by <name key="Carly Knox & Lorna Ashworth">

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Bumble-bees are similar to honey bees But have a larger Body <reg>covered</reg> with stiff orange, red or yellow hairs. <S><reg>they</reg> live all over the world.

Flowers and bees depend on one another for their existence, because the pollen that sticks to the <reg>bee's</reg> body is carried to other flowers and enables fertilization to take place.

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A bee feeds on flowers.

Bees are insects.

They have six legs and two pairs of wings.

A bumblebee has a long hollow tongue.

It uses it to suck up the sweet nectar from flowers.

It makes the nectar into honey.

It also eats pollen.

It carried some pollen home in 'baskets' on its back lege.

The bee makes wax in <reg>its</reg> body.

It uses the wax in its nest.

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the worker bees collect pollen from flowers. When a worker bee lands on a flower, she gets a yellow dust called pollen in her fur. <S>the worker bee has rows of large hairs on her Back legs she packs the <sic>poll</sic> Between the hairs. Then she flies back to the nest <NOTE_LAN desc="no punctuation">

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Length .. Queen 22 mm, drone 20 mm, worker 16 mm.

Colouration + Form.. Queen dark and long bodied, drone larger than worker with no sting, workers orange banded.

Mouthparts .. Long, tube-like proboscis for feeding on nectar.

Wings .. 2 pairs hooked together.

Mating.. Autumn. The queen hibernates through the winter.

No. of eggs.. up to 1500 laid per day by the queen in the Spring.

Habits .. Lives in large colonies.

Diet .. Nectar and Pollen.

Lifespan .. Queen 7 years, Drone 4-5 weeks, worker 8 weeks.

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the Honey Bee distinctive with its buzzing and its apparently busy lifestyle is <reg>known</reg> as [unclear] the world over for its production of honey and can be found <reg>wherever</reg> flowers are blooming.

Once found only in Asia, the distinctively striped, fiercely stinging honey bee has been introduced to almost every part of the <sic>of the</sic> world and is now a common sight from the <reg>world's</reg> hottest desert to cool mountain heights.

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This is a worker bee, it is in a group of them. The hive has a honeycomb in it and the bees live on it.

The worker bee guards the hive and if a wasp <reg>tries</reg> to take over the hive, it stings it to kill it, when it has stung the bee it dies.

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<sic>Insect</sic> that live <reg>together</reg> by Macdonald First Library

Bees by Christine Butterworth

Bees + Wasps by Christopher O'toole

Bees by Hannah E. Glease

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