Inside a Honey Bee Colony: teacher key

Bees, grade 4 edition, written for 4th grade. Honey bees make honey from nectar, and every bee in the colony has a part to play. Learn how bees see, dance and make it through winter.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What do bees fan to dry nectar into honey?
   • Their wings (answer)
   • Their stingers
   • Their tongues
2. What does a drone do, according to the book?
   • Lays eggs
   • Builds the hive alone
   • Mates with a queen from another hive (answer)
3. A drone takes 24 days to grow from an egg to an adult, and a queen takes 16 days. How many more days does a drone take?
   • 40
   • 8 (answer)
   • 16
4. What happens to honey bee workers in the fall or winter?
   • They push the drones out of the hive (answer)
   • They leave the hive for good
   • They lay the eggs
5. What does ultraviolet mean?
   • A kind of flower
   • A round dance
   • Light people cannot see (answer)

Words

• ultraviolet: hidden light
• drone: male bee
• crop: nectar carrier