Worker Job Chart

Name Job Accessory Question Cleaners Repair and clean the comb. Broom and dust What are some of are neat pan the chores that you freaks. They keep their do around the hive clean. Bits of debris house? Or ask such as dead bees and any them if they aren’t other items that do not old enough to do belong in the hive chores, How does environment are removed your family clean from the hive. Any debris the house? Sweeps, that the bees are dusts, vacuums etc. physically unable to remove is coated in . Nurse Tending and feeding young Baby bee Ask them who bees and the queen. The takes care of them nurse bee doesn’t sleep for as they grow up the 10 days that she is a and what does nurse bee while she is she/he need to do feeding the brood. During to help you grow. the 8 days before the cell Feed and clothe - containing a larva is same as the nurse capped, it will be fed more bee to the baby than 10,000 times! The larvae. queen does not feed herself or groom herself. Nurse bees feed and groom the queen, and even remove her bodily waste from the hive. Builders Produce wax and build the Small hammer Have them look honey comb and hive. Bees and VERY VERY between 12 and 15 days gently touch and old secrete this from wax smell the comb. glands as a byproduct of Depending on age honey consumption; the ask them what sugars in the honey are shape the processed into wax, which honeycomb is. the bees use as the raw material in honeycomb construction. Bees shape the wax with their mandibles and legs. People don’t know exactly why the honeycomb is built in the shape of a hexagon, but maybe because of the shapes optimal use of space. Honey Turn the into Honey. Fan or Hair Dryer Tell the students to Maker The forager bee deposits beat their arms the nectar into the cells and make a (with an enzyme in their buzzing noise. bee stomach) then the Show them a glass honey maker will beat their container full of wings to dry out the nectar, water and explain or ripen, the nectar which that is what nectar turns it into honey. (Honey looks like. Then is basically bee spit) show them honey in a clear container. Foraging Gathering and storing Fanny bags with Show the poster of Bee/Pollen pollen. When a foraging yellow puff balls the bee and show collector bee returns to the hive with them where the a load of pollen, she pollen baskets are. deposits the pollen in a cell. Another bee will later pack the pollen into the cell, using her head to ram the pollen in tightly. When nearly full, the pollen cell will be topped off with a shallow layer of honey, and then capped. Stored in this manner, the pollen will be preserved for many months and can be eaten in the winter months. It is a good source of protein. Foraging Gathering and storing Straws Show them the Bee /Nectar water and nectar. When a bees tongue on the collector foraging bee returns to the poster and ask hive with a load of nectar, them what does another worker takes the this tongue look nectar from her, and begins like or what do we the process of transforming use to suck up the nectar into honey, liquid from a cup. which they eat when there are no flowers in the winter. Guarders Protect the hive and the Goalie mask What are the bees’ queen. They take posts at predators? Several each entrance to the hive insects and challenge anything (dragonflies, attempting to enter the certain and hive which is not a member assassin bugs) eat of the hive. honey bees, Bees will rob the honey particularly from a weaker hive if they foraging bees can, and it is the job of the visiting flowers. guard bees to prevent this Spiders trap honey from happening to their bees in their webs hive. They are able to tell if and eat them. a worker bee attempting to Birds, toads and enter is from another hive lizards will eat by scent, and will fight to bees if they have a the death if necessary to chance. Bears, prevent that bee from badgers, mice and entering the hive. They also ants are common emit a pheromone to warn bee enemies that bees inside the hive of like to eat honey. impending danger.