Bees

See Think wonder

What do you see in the picture? What do you think is happening and what was the artist trying to tell you with this picture? What does this picture make you wonder about?

Wendy Brackman, “Brackman’s Botanical Bonanza,” Hand painted paper plates, straws, Ping-Pong balls, paper towel tubes, endless staples. Photo credit Jill Ribich. Part of Yummm! at AVAM.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-fo-taste-avam-yum-20161007-story.html

Story Time

The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter by Shabazz Larkin

The Honeybee by Kristen Hall

Assignment

Using the diagram, draw a bee. Bees get nectar from flowers and pollinate them in the process. You can add flowers to your picture to help tell a story. For help drawing flowers click here

Honey bees are insects and have five characteristics that are common to most insects.

They have a hard outer shell called an exoskeleton.
They have three main body parts: head, thorax, abdomen.
They have a pair of antennae that are attached to their head.
They have three pairs of legs used for walking.
They have two pairs of wings.

Working With Bees

texasbeeworks Erika Thompson · 3-12

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Here's How Bees and Butterflies See Flowers. No Wonder They Love Them!Humans are blind to ultraviolet light, but bugs can see it, and boy are they lucky! Ultraviolet florescence photography gives us a hint of how flowers look to pollinators. Insects see the world very differently from how humans see it. They can’t see red light like we do, but can […]

https://askabiologist.asu.edu/honey-bee-anatomy

The Waggle Dance

Bees dance to show the way to a food source.

Annie Howe Paper Cut artist from Baltimore, Maryland

Vocabulary

Head: Location of the eyes, brain, where the antennae attach.

Mandibles: Strong outer mouthparts that help protect the proboscis.

Proboscis: Tube-like mouth part used to suck up fluids.

Ocelli: One of two types of insect eyes used to detect motion.

Eye (Compound): The second type of eyes made of many light detectors called ommatidia.

Antenna: Movable segmented feelers that detect airborne scents and currents.

Thorax: Midsection where the (6) legs and wings attach.

Abdomen: Hind part of the bee and where the stinger is located.

Stinger: Or sting, is a sharp organ at the end of the bee's abdomen used to inject venom.

Forewings: Wings closest to the head.

Hind Wings: Wings farthest from the head.

Forelegs: Legs closest to the head.

Antennae Cleaners: Notches filled with stiff hairs that help bees clean their antennae. There is one on each foreleg.

Middle Legs: Leg located between the foreleg and hind leg.

Hind Legs: Legs farthest from the head. In workers, these legs have a unique set of tools used to collect and carry pollen called the press, brush, and auricle.

Coxa: First segment of an insect leg.

Trochanter: Second segment of an insect leg.

Femur: Third segment of an insect leg.

Tibia: Fourth segment of an insect leg; the tibia of the hind leg holds the pollen basket, where pollen is carried.

Metatarsus: Fifth segment of an insect leg; the metatarsus of the hind leg holds special pollen collecting tools.

Tarsus: The last segment of the leg and what touches the walking surface.

Tarsus Claw: Claw found on the last segment of the leg.

Bee Vision

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