Buzzing bees
Completion certificate
Congratulations on completing your buzzing bees Tool Kit For Eco Heroes. You are now a bee expert!
You can download your FREE certificate here, or just click on the picture and off you go!
Be sure to display your certificate proudly and wow your friends with the fascinating facts that you’ve learnt.
Just remember to keep saving our planet.
Buzzing bees quiz
Here are the answers to the foody quiz
1. True: Bees are deaf, so they don’t use verbal language, but one way they communicate is to dance to share information and to make requests.
2. True: Bees are remarkably tidy, they even groom each other and keep their hive incredibly clean.
3. False: Bees can’t see any shades of red but they can see shoes of blue, green and violet.
4. False: Bees do have teeth, which they use for chewing and biting but they won’t will only bite their enemies not people!
5. False: A bee hive is constructed using hexagonal shapes. It is the most efficient shape and allows for the cells to be packed together with no empty space in between.
6. False: A Queen Bee will lay 800,000 eggs in her lifetime.
7. False: Bees can fly at speeds of around 12 miles per hour.
8. False: The Wallace's giant bee is the largest bee in the world and is almost 4cm long not 40cm!
9. False: Canadian bees produce honey… maple syrup comes from trees!
10. True: Bees are insects, they have 2 sets of wings, 3 body parts and 6 legs.
Activities
Here are the answers for the puzzle cards
Pollen dash
Bee crossword
Across
1 - POLLEN
5 - HIVE
7 - ORGANIC
8 - WAGGLE
9 - EGGS
10 - NEST
Down
1 - HONEY
3 - LEGS
4 - NECTAR
5 - HEXAGON
6 - STING
Bee search
Label a bee
A - ANTENNAE
B - WINGS
C - LEGS
D - POLLEN BASKET
E - STING
F - ABDOMEN
G - THORAX
H - HEAD
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