Bee Facts, Worksheets, Habitat & Life Span Information for Kids (2024)

FAQs

What habitat do bees live in? ›

Honey bees can thrive in natural or domesticated environments, though they prefer to live in gardens, woodlands, orchards, meadows and other areas where flowering plants are abundant. Within their natural habitat, honey bees build nests inside tree cavities and under edges of objects to hide themselves from predators.

They're social creatures and live together in nests or hives. In their natural habitat, honey bees build nests in the hollows of trees or under the edges of objects, where they're hidden from predators. In the winter, honey bees eat their honey to keep their bodies and colony warm.

In temperate climates, colonies store honey and pollen to feed on during the winter. During cold temperatures the workers and queen form a tight ball or cluster, working their flight muscles to generate heat and keep themselves warm. In warmer tropical regions, honeybees maintain smaller stores of food.

While your sweet treats may be attractive to bees, most bees use pollen and nectar as a food source. Worker bees gather both pollen and nectar from flowers to feed to the larvae and other members of the colony. Nectar is a sweet fluid produced by flowers to attract bees and other animals.

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are eusocial insects that exhibit striking caste-specific differences in longevity. Queen honey bees live on average 1–2 years whereas workers live on average 15–38 days in the summer and 150–200 days in the winter.

However short they may be, bees live busy lives. Though their average lifespan is just six weeks, their work till you drop attitude is strictly commendable.

Bees pass through four stages: eggs, larvae, pupae and adults.

Do bees live 3 days? ›

Bee Lifespan FAQs

Honeybee workers generally live for 5 to 6 weeks, while queens survive for 3 to 6 years. Male honeybees are known as drones and just live for a few weeks or until they mate. Bumble bee workers typically live for 4 – 6 weeks while the queens live for a year.

4,000 bees together weigh only one pound. Each of our hives has 50,000 bees, weighing 12 pounds together. A single bee can produce 1 tablespoon of honey in its lifetime. 683 bees fly roughly 32,550 miles to gather 5.93 lbs of nectar from about 1,185,000 flowers in order to make one 9.5 oz.

Although bears do like honey, they prefer to eat the bee larvae. The scientific study of bees is called Apiology. Bees have two stomachs - one stomach for eating and the other is for storing nectar collected from flowers or water so that they can carry it back to their hive.

Honey bees never sleep. An average hive has 50,000 to 60,000 worker bees. The honey bee is the only insect that produces food for humans. Honey keeps very well.

A honey bee can fly up to 15 miles per hour. A honey bee worker only makes an average of 1/12 of a teaspoon in her lifetime. One ounce of honey would fuel a bees flight around the world. A pound honey is made by 2 million flower visits.

It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world. Honey is 80% sugars and 20% water. Honey bees produce beeswax from eight paired glands on the underside of their abdomen. Honey bees must consume about 17-20 pounds of honey to be able to biochemically produce each pound of beeswax.