Penn State University and the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Consortium offer an excellent site on everything you need to know about bee behavior.

Investigate how honey bees create the magical sweetener. Why are these bees so important to the environment?

This is a lesson plan for grades 9 - 12. There are worksheets that can be printed out. Each activity and objective is stated.

Bee, or honeybee, is the word many people use to describe any flying insect that has wings and a stinger. Take a look at this article to learn more about bees.

There has been documented evidence that honey bees increase their foraging of antibiotic plant resins when under stress from fungal pathogens. Could more access to certain plants provide some solutions for decreasing bee populations?

Website that accompanies the NOVA program "Tales from the Hive." Site includes additional facts on bees, specifically the breakdown of a bee hive, and the different dances bees do as well as what they mean.

Outstanding site that compliments an insect series on PBS. Interactive presentations include bee anatomy and honeybee hives. Includes interactive puzzles, teacher's guides, and formats for making insect masks.

As colony collapse disorder continues to attack honeybee hives, a new study shows that a common insecticide interferes with their return flights.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the decreasing number of bees and the negative effects that can have on our food supply. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the role of honeybees in producing honey. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.

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Honeybee

Honeybee

Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting grains of pollen. Bees have a special tongue that sucks up the nectar and a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive, where it is turned into honey...

Use this site to find out why bees make honey with this quick fact sheet on bees.

Bees are found all over the world and are vital for controlling other insect populations. Some basic facts about bees can be read here, and there are pictures as well.

This informative site takes a look at other insects that look like bees but in fact are not. Physical traits and characteristics are commented on for comparison purposes.

Photo image of the European honey bee.

The head region of a honeybee.

Site provides some fascinating facts regarding these extremely important insects. Contains a physical; description, information regarding their diet, habitat, social structure, birth and offspring as well as senses.

Discover more about bees through this educational resource. This resource features math and science activities, experiments, fun facts, and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about problems created by the decreasing bee population. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Beehives are made of walls, each of the same size, enclosing small hexagonal cells where honey and pollen are stored and bees are raised. This problem examines some of the mathematical advantages of the hexagonal tiling in a beehive....

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about honeybees. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.