BEES

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BEES
Bees are useful insect. There are about 20,000 kinds of bees, but only honey bees make honey. Honeybees live in groups called colonies. Each colony has one female queen bee, tens of thousands of workers bees, and a few hundred males, or drones. Honeybees live in hives. Inside their hive, the bees make a honeycomb of wax. The honey-comb is a kind of bee apartment building, full of six-sided rooms in which the bees raise young and store food. The queen bee lays thousand of eggs. Worm like larva hatch from the eggs, each larva becomes a pupa, which looks partly like a larva and partly like an adult bee. The pupa then becomes an adult bee. Worker bees feed the young, clean and guard the hive, and fly to and from flowers. They collect tiny grains of pollen and a sweet liquid called nectar for food. The pollen is food for young bees. Worker bees use the nectar to make honey. Without bees bringing pollen from flower to flower, many plants could not make seeds. Queen bees and worker bees have stings. Workers use their stings to defend themselves and their hive. A queen uses their stings to kill other queens. Most other kinds of bees live alone instead of in a colony. These bees make tunnels in wood or in the ground. The queen makes her own nest. People admire bees for their busy ways. People called beekeepers keep bees for honey and for the beeswax the bees use to build their honeycombs.