Olivia's awesome bee report!!!

A bees size is about 4 cm long. A bee is covered in black and yellow stripes. Bees have 6 legs, a stinger, 2 compound eyes, a little eye, 2 wings, a head, a thorax and an abdomen.

Most bees are found in the countries in Africa, Northern Europe, Eastern India, China and America. Bees live in a hive. A bee hive is goldy/yellowish type of colour. Bees hives have little hexagons all over them. The bees put honey and nectar in the hive.

A bees life cycle is this: first a queen bee lays a egg and starts a nest. In about 3 days the worker bee egg should have hatched and become a larva. After about 9 days the larva should have become a pupa, after about 10-12 days the pupa will become a full grown worker bee. Bees reproduce by mating.

Bees like to eat honey, nectar and pollen. Queen bees eat royal jelly. Royal jelly is a yellow liquid. The bee eaters are birds, badgers, foxes, weasels and bears.

There are 3 types of bees they are the queen bee, worker bee and the drone bee. They all have different jobs depending on there type. Worker bees do all the work for the colony, queen bees have the babies and male drones look after the queen bee and the eggs. Bees make hives to store their food.