Honey bees are small insects. They live together in groups called colonies. A single colony has thousands of bees.
There are three types of bees in a colony. One is the queen bee. Her job is to lay eggs. Next are the drone bees. They are male bees. The last type is the worker bee. Worker bees are female. They do all the hard work.
Worker bees have busy lives. Young worker bees stay inside the hive. They clean the home and feed the baby bees. Older worker bees leave the hive. They fly to flowers.
Flowers have sweet liquid called nectar. Bees use their long tongues to drink this nectar. They also collect yellow powder called pollen on their legs. Bees carry nectar and pollen back to the home.
Bees use nectar to make honey. They store the honey in special cells made of wax. This honey is food for the winter.
Bees help plants grow. When a bee lands on a flower, yellow pollen sticks to its body. The bee flies to another flower. Some pollen falls off. This helps flowers make seeds and new plants. Without bees, we would not have many fruits and vegetables.
Do you like eating honey?