2. How bees make honey

Reading Comprehensionhttp://youtu.be/I6E0yB0Ev0oThe honey bee is definitely one of the most popular insect as it produces one of the sweetest tasting products in the world: Honey! Of course, honey bees do not just produce and make honey, but their honey comb is also something that humans really enjoy. The life cycle of the honey bee is actually pretty interesting. As with all bees, the queen bee is the one that lays all of the eggs. The eggs are laid singularly in a cell of the wax honey comb that is of course produced and shaped by the worker bees. When the honey bee is first born from a larvae, it starts out as a worker bee and the young worker bees job is to clean the hive and feed all of the new larvae. This is of course when the young bees royal jelly producing glands develop which are used to feed larvae. This will continue to be the honey bees life until they decide to take their first flight and finally leave the hive. As soon as a bee leaves the hive to find pollen, they typically are now referred to as a forager bee.

The honey bees defense does result in their death they can only sting once and then they pass away. This is one reason why bees will only sting if they feel that they are absolutely threatened. The honey bee is the only bee species that dies after stinging someone. The honey bee has a barbed stinger which actually pulls away from their stomach along with a poison sac after stinging. The reason that the honey bee dies after it stings is because of the abdomen rupture from when the poison sac was pulled free from their abdomen.

Vocabulary honey comb lay egg wax honey comb larvae worker bee forager bee sting pull free pollinate/ pollenate: To transfer pollen from an anther to the stigma of (a flower).

1. Watch the film http://youtu.be/I6E0yB0Ev0o and listen attentively. Then, fill in the following blanks: Bees make a) ..because it provides an important food source for them. In order to produce honey, bees must cater a sweet liquid called b) . from flower chalice.

A worker bee flies to a flower and sucks up the nectar with its long c) . . The tongue is a flexible tube on the outside of the bees head. The nectar goes through the bees d) .. and ends to the honey stomach where it is stored. The honey stomach is located in the bees abdomen. Inside the honey stomach, e) which are protein molecules that speed up chemical reactions, help transform the sugar in the nectar into two simple sugars, fructose and glucose. The process is called inversion. The worker bee store nectar in the f) . . It regurgitates or spits up the inverted nectar back to its mouth. It either casts the nectar to other bees, or puts it into empty six sided g) called cells. Bees then put wax caps on the cells to seal them. The wanted bee hive causes water in the nature to evaporate. Honey is an excellent h) food for bees, humans and other animals because it contains sugars that the body can use quickly.