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Text number: 1016

Name:   Katja
Age: 5
Country: United Kingdom
School: 1- Primary School

QUEEN BEES

• The life of a honey bee. The Queen lays eggs. 1,500 a day.
• The workers help and care for the queen.
• The bees groom and feed the queen.
• The Queen is longer and fatter than any other bee in the beehive.
• Queens cannot live long.
• Queen bees can live up to five years.
• Before a queen lays eggs, it must mate with one or more honey bee.
• Queens can lay up to 1,500 eggs a day.
• Queen checks for clear cells. Eggs hatch after 3 days.
• Queens sting other queen bees only.

Queen mates drone. Queen lays eggs in wax cups.

Facts

• Queen-mother-largest
• drone-brother-middle size
• worker-sister-smallest
• The queen is one of the colony. Has one big job. To lay eggs

Facts about a beehive and bees

• The queen bee makes the other bees.
• First the egg turns into a larva, and then into a pupa.
• One of the pupae is called

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