Where Honey Comes From: teacher key

Bees, grade 3 edition, written for 3rd grade. Honey bees make honey from the sweet nectar of flowers. Learn about the queen, the workers and the bumblebees.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What is the body part called where a bee carries nectar home?
   • The wing
   • The hive
   • The crop (answer)
2. What does a honey bee colony live on in the cold months?
   • Bumblebees
   • The honey it stored (answer)
   • Fresh nectar
3. A worker honey bee takes 21 days to grow from an egg to an adult, and a queen takes 16 days. How many more days does a worker take?
   • 5 (answer)
   • 16
   • 37
4. What happens to bumblebees after they sting?
   • They die
   • They turn into queens
   • They do not die (answer)
5. What does the page mean by the crop?
   • A kind of bee
   • A body part that carries nectar (answer)
   • A wax cell

Words

• crop: nectar carrier
• workers: girl bees