Honey Bee Facts for Kids

🐝 Honey bee facts! 🐝 They have a complex social structure A colony can contain 20,000–60,000 bees and is divided into three types: • Queen - the only fertile female; lays up to 2,000 eggs per day. • Workers – sterile females that gather nectar, care for larvae, and defend the hive. • Drones – males whose main job is to mate with a queen. The most common species is the Western honey bee. ⸻ 🍯 They make honey from nectar Bees collect nectar from flowers, break it down with enzymes, and store it