Bees have been around for quite some time. They make honey, buzz around, and some­times annoy peo­ple.
But have you ever won­dered about what a bee is? Have you ever won­dered the pur­pose of bees?
Take a vir­tual jour­ney through this site to learn about the bee world.

The life cycle of a Bee

There are four stages in the life of a bee. They are:

• Egg: The 1st stage in a bee’s life. The egg stage gen­er­ally takes place dur­ing the first three days.
• Larva: The egg hatches into a larva after three days. It’s fed bee milk and bread. The larva then spins a
  cocoon around itself. This stage takes place dur­ing days 4–9.
• Pupa: While in the cocoon, the larva trans­forms into a pupa. It now has eyes, legs and wings, look­ing more like a bee.
  Depend­ing on what type of bee it will become, this stage takes place between days 10 and 23.
• Adult: The final stage in a bee’s com­plete meta­mor­pho­sis. The bee is now full grown, and chews its way out of the
  cell it’s been in since day 1. This stage hap­pens between days 16 and 24, depend­ing on what kind of bee it is.This pic­ture shows the life cycle.
  I hope this clears thing up.

  Honey! I’m Home!

  Honey is sweet, sticky and very tasty. Peo­ple put in hair care prod­ucts, in their tea, or, if you’re like me, on
  bis­cuits. Yes, honey is a very big part in the lives of humans. But how do bees make that honey?
  As most peo­ple know, honey starts out as nec­tar that bees get from a flower. The bee then uses an enzyme it pro­duces
  to turn the nec­tar into glu­cose and fruc­tose. Then, after return­ing to the hive, the bee secretes wax and molds it
  into thou­sands of cells.
  Bees then add chem­i­cals found on their head to the nec­tar, chang­ing the nec­tar sug­ars into honey sug­ars. The droplets
  are then spread out and fanned by the wings of the bees. Most of the water dries up and, Voila! You’ve got honey!

  Facts about bees that will sting you!

  There are sci­en­tists who study bees, but for those of you who aren’t one of those, here are some facts that
  you’ll be “stung” to find out!

• The first thing is that most bees die after sting­ing some­one, with the excep­tion of the queen bee, who can sting sev­eral times with­out dying! How neat is that?
• In hives where there is no queen, worker bees can give birth.
• A bee has five eyes: 2 com­pound and 3 simple.
• In flight, a bee’s wings can beat at up to 180 times a sec­ond! Try doing that sometime!
• It’s more com­mon to be stung by a wasp than a bee.
• A sin­gle bee hive can be home to between 20,000 and 60,000 bees! Talk about a full house!
• A queen bee can live up to two years, while work­ers gen­er­ally live a few weeks.
• Queens start in eggs just like every other bee. How­ever, the queen is more heav­ily fed “royal jelly” than
  the other eggs.
• There are three kinds of bees: A queen bee, a worker bee and a drone.
• Drones are the males in the hive. Their only pur­pose is to mate with the queen. They die shortly after mat­ing and have no stingers.
• Worker bees are the females that go out and bring back nec­tar to make honey.
• The queen is the one who lays most of the eggs; up to 2,000 a day!
• Yes, bees are very busy, and very use­ful. The Bible even likens peo­ple to bees when it says: “They sur­rounded me like bees, they were extin­guished like a fire of thorn bushes. It was in the name of Jeho­vah that I kept hold­ing them off.”(Psalms 118:12)