Reading · Grade 4
Honey Bees at Work
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A honey bee hive is a busy city of thousands of bees. Worker bees fly from flower to flower collecting a sweet liquid called nectar. As they travel, tiny grains of pollen stick to their bodies and are carried to other flowers. This helps the flowers make seeds, a process called pollination. Back at the hive, the bees turn the nectar into honey and store it in wax combs to feed the hive through the winter.
What do worker bees collect from flowers?
What sticks to the bees as they travel?
What is it called when pollen moves between flowers?
What do bees turn nectar into?
Why do bees store honey?
Answer Key
- Nectar.
- Pollen.
- Pollination.
- Honey.
- To feed the hive through the winter.