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    Explore Honey Bees!: With 25 Great Projects
    Explore Honey Bees!: With 25 Great Projects
    Explore Honey Bees!: With 25 Great Projects
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    Explore Honey Bees!: With 25 Great Projects

    By Cindy Blobaum and Bryan Stone

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    What did you have for breakfast this morning? Toast, cereal, juice, and fruit? Thank the honey bees! About one out of every three mouthfuls we eat is affected by honey bee pollination. In Explore Honey Bees! With 25 Great Projects, young readers learn about honey bee colonies, why honey bees live in hives, how honey bees communicate with each other, and why they are so important to human lives.

    Colony collapse disorder first appeared in 2006 and since then beekeepers have seen disappearances of 30 to 90 percent of their bee colonies each year. Readers learn about possible reasons behind and solutions to this growing global problem.

    Explore Honey Bees! offers a glimpse into a miniature world familiar to children. Activities include designing a hive and making a model of a flower's reproductive system, reinforcing the math and science skills readers gain from the text. Fun facts and colorful illustrations make learning fun and exciting. Links to online primary sources integrate a digital learning experience and offer opportunities to delve deeper into the world of honey bees.

    This title meets Common Core State Standards in language arts, science and technology; Guided Reading Levels and Lexile measurements indicate grade level and text complexity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNomad Press
    Release dateJun 22, 2015
    ISBN9781619302884
    Explore Honey Bees!: With 25 Great Projects
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    Cindy Blobaum

    Cindy Blobaum is the author of many nonfiction books for children, including Skulls and Skeeltons! and Explore the Ice Age! for Nomad Press. She is a contributor to Highlights, Hopscotch for Girls, and Plays magazines and has designed science-based programs and teacher workshops for nature organizations throughout the United States. Cindylives in Iowa.

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      Book preview

      Explore Honey Bees! - Cindy Blobaum

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      Nomad Press

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      Copyright © 2015 by Nomad Press. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review or for limited educational use. The trademark Nomad Press and the Nomad Press logo are trademarks of Nomad Communications, Inc.

      ISBN Softcover: 978-1-61930-290-7

      ISBN Hardcover: 978-1-61930-286-0

      Illustrations by Bryan Stone

      Educational Consultant, Marla Conn

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      Nomad Press

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      For Phil, my beekeeping honey of a husband, and Aunt Traci Henning, who first suggested I write about honey bees.

      CONTENTS

      Timeline

      Introduction

      The Buzz About Honey Bees

      Chapter 1

      Honey Bee Bodies

      Chapter 2

      Bee Social

      Chapter 3

      Inside the Bee Hive

      Chapter 4

      Perfect Products

      Chapter 5

      Honey Bees in Trouble

      Glossary • Metric Conversions

      Resources • Index

      Interested in primary sources? Look for this icon.

      Use a smartphone or tablet app to scan the QR code and explore more about honey bees! You can find a list of URLs on the Resources page.

      Timeline

      When you go outside on a warm spring day, what do you see? It doesn’t matter if you live in the city or the country, the trees will be leafy and green and flowers will be blooming. And where there are flowers, there are bees!

      WORDS to KNOW

      insect: an animal that has three body parts, six legs, and its skeleton on the outside of its body. Many insects have wings. Grasshoppers, ants, ladybugs, and honey bees are all insects.

      colony: a group that lives and works together.

      What do you know about honey bees? Have you ever watched one at work in a flower? Are you afraid honey bees will sting you? Do you eat products that come from honey bees, such as honey?

      Honey bees are small but mighty insects. They live in colonies of thousands of bees. Honey bees work together to keep the colony alive and healthy.

      WORDS to KNOW

      nectar: a sweet fluid made by flowers that attracts insects.

      pollen: a powder made by flowers that is needed for the flower to make a seed.

      bee bread: a mixture of pollen, bee spit, and nectar.

      royal jelly: a special food honey bees make to feed to the young bees.

      Honey bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers. They use the nectar and pollen to make honey, bee bread, beeswax, and royal jelly. These are the basic things honey bees need to make their homes and feed their young.

      HONEY BEES AND FLOWERS

      When honey bees collect nectar and pollen, they are also helping the flowers. Flowers have the important job of making seeds that grow into new plants. They do this by moving pollen from one area of the flower to another, and by sending their pollen to other flowers. But flowers can’t always get their pollen to the right place on their own. So they rely on help from honey bees!

      Honey bees are covered in tiny hairs. When a honey bee lands on a flower, the pollen sticks to its hairs. As the honey bee moves around in the flower, it spreads the pollen.

      IT’S OFFICIAL

      Every type of plant and animal has its own scientific name in Latin. This helps scientists all around the world, no matter what language they speak, make sure they are talking about the same type of plant or animal. The scientific name for honey bees is Apis mellifera. If you translate that into English, it means honey-carrying bee. Even if they are really carrying nectar and pollen, it’s a great description of a honey bee!

      Honey bees carry the pollen on them when they visit other flowers and spread it around there, too. With pollen in the right places, flowers can make their seeds.

      WORDS to KNOW

      pollinate: to transfer pollen from the male parts of flowers to the female parts so that flowers can make seeds.

      What is your favorite fruit? Some plants, such as apples, peaches, pears, and watermelons, grow fruit around their seeds. Honey bees pollinate more than 100 types of plants that become food for us. Maybe one of these is your favorite!

      Many foods need honey bees or other insects to carry pollen from flower to flower. These include kiwis, cashews, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers, lemons, limes, pumpkins, apples, mangoes, avocados, apricots, cherries, plums, almonds, peaches, pears, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries.

      WORDS to KNOW

      hive: the place where bees live, lay eggs, and make food.

      stinger: a sharp point at the end of some insects’ bodies.

      venom: poison given off by some animals and insects.

      resin: a sticky liquid made by trees.

      propolis: a sticky glue made by bees using tree resin.

      HONEY BEES AND ANIMALS

      The things honey bees make from nectar and pollen are good for lots of other creatures, not just honey bees. Many animals, such as bears, skunks, honey badgers, mice, and even other insects, try to move into hives to eat honey bee food and babies.

      Female honey bees try to protect the hive against these creatures with stingers and venom. But some animals aren’t bothered by

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