Bees Waggle Dance

Match the following

• Tend to queen, guard the hive entrance

• Worker bee

• Carries all the genetic traits

• Queen

• males that mate with the Queen

• Drone

Package bees will contain a ​ (a)   , multiple workers, and a feeder filled with ​ (b)   syrup.

The most common method of queen introducing is using the ​ (c)   method. The worker bees become familiar with the new queen as they slowly ​ (d)   their way through the food ​ (e)   in her cage.

• queen
• sugar
• indirect
• eat
• plug

Purchasing a ​ (a)   hive gives you a jump start in ​ (b)   growth. However, this approach is a bit ​ (c)   than package bees, as the honeycomb can spread ​ (d)   and disease from the ​ (e)   hive to your hive.

• nuclear
• colony
• riskier
• pests
• donor

This will contain a queen, multiple workers, and a feeder filled with sugar syrup.

• Package Bees

• Nucleus Hive

This approach is a bit riskier than package bees, as the honeycomb can spread pests and disease from the donor hive to your hive.

• Package bees

• Nucleus hive

This approach is a bit riskier than package bees, as the honeycomb can spread pests and disease from the donor hive to your hive.

• Package bees

• Nucleus hive

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

When gathering bees, what is NOT something you need

• Proper enclosed clothing with hood

• smoker to calm bees down

• sugar/water syrup

• tank top and shorts

 Bees can be directed toward the hive by puffing smoke ​ (a)   them, encouraging them to move in the ​ (b)   direction (toward the container).

• behind
• opposite

Bees communicate flower location using special ​ (a)   inside the hive. One bee dances, while other bees ​ (b)   to learn the ​ (c)   to a specific flower patch. The dancing bee smells like the ​ (d)   patch, and also gives the watching bees a ​ (e)   of the nectar she gathered.

• dances
• watch
• flower
• taste
• directions

Bees communicate about where flower patches by

• Dancing

• flying

• talking

• flapping their wings