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- 3. Eye an eye made up of thousands of tiny lenses that allow a honey bee to see ultraviolet light, which is invisible to the human eye, as well as visible light (except red).
- 4. bee young worker bee that works in the hive
- 5. Bees the bees that guard the hive entrance
- 9. the fine, powder-like material produced by the anthers of flowering plants.
- 12. female bees who build and guard the hive, look after the queen and gather food.
- 15. Basket a smooth, somewhat concave surface of the outer hind leg that is fringed with long, curved hairs that hold the pollen in place.
- 17. hatched from the egg the queen bee lays, the larva will pupate and eventually turn into an adult insect.
- 19. a male honey bee that is produced from an unfertilized egg
- 20. female bee that lays eggs
- 23. the middle section of the honey bee's three sections that contains the flight muscles, the wings and six legs.
- 24. found in a chamber at the end of the abdomen (in female honey bees only) and is used to defend against intruders.
- 27. a group of honeybees living together
- 29. a fully formed, mature honey bee
- 30. the silk chamber a larva spins around itself just prior to the pupal stage of development.
- 31. the rear body region of a honey bee composed of nine
- 33. the hard outer covering which forms a bee's body
- 34. pollen, and to knead wax.
- 36. and contains many organs including those for digestion, reproduction and respiration.
- 37. Dances a way honey bees communicate to find nectar sources
- 38. a hexagonal chamber built of beeswax for brood rearing and storage of honey and pollen.
- 40. metamorphosis the four stages of transformation in the life of a honey bee
- 41. the honey bee has two sets of flat, thin, membranous wings, strengthened by various veins.
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- 1. scent all the worker bees of a colony produce a scent that is characteristic of their colony and is recognized by all the members
- 2. the stomach section in the abdomen which digests food
- 4. the forward body region of the honey bee's three sections that contains the compound eyes, simple eyes, antennae, mandibles, and proboscis
- 6. cell a brood cell that is larger than the normal worker brood cells and in which the queen deposits drone eggs.
- 7. fore wings are larger than the hind wings.
- 8. Jelly a milky, yellow syrup that is very high in protein, that young worker bees secrete from glands inside their heads and feed to larvae
- 10. the third stage in a bee's life, during which the larva's body changes into that of an adult.
- 11. a bees home
- 13. simple eye with a thick lens that can sense changes in the brightness of daylight
- 14. Sac the stomach-like organ that is connected by a funnel shaped valve to the digestive tract. The nectar stored here will be unloaded into empty hive cells or passed on to house bees for food.
- 16. the six sided wax cells in a be hive
- 18. the moveable, sensitive feelers on an insect's head which detect odor and movement.
- 21. a sweet liquid secreted by flowers of various plants.
- 22. a straw-like structure used for sucking nectar or honey
- 25. the offspring produced by the colony (eggs and larvae)
- 26. located on either side of the honey bee's head, these jaw-like structures are used to chew honey
- 28. Glands four pairs of glands that are specialized parts of the body wall.
- 32. bees The young house bees whose task is to feed the larvae
- 35. a honey bee has three pairs of segmented legs used not only for walking but also to dust off antennae, brush pollen out of the thousands of branched hairs that cover the body, and to store pollen.
- 39. laid by a queen bee, this is the first stage in the life of a honey bee.