I’m a Honey Bee

I live in a colony with the queen bee, thousands of worker bees and nurse bees.

We’re all female bees taking care of each other supporting the sick and the baby bees.

We all play a role in pollination and in enabling the growth of crops, flowers and we are instrumental in producing the food supply for all of civilization.

We spread pollen from flower to flower which we help to create.

We are domesticated and are nature’s hardest workers. We help to grow all types of fruits and vegetables by spreading the pollen and sugars we create that we also subsist on for our dietary needs.

We generate our food source from the pollen we forage creating a nectar and we also need water in our diet for our survival as well so we must seek water from streams and ponds to protect all the bees in the hive.

We are protected in our hive and we work in unison with all the different classes of bees and we ensure the safety of our queen and the worker bees who produce the honey.

The nurse bees make sure that the baby bees are protected and safe in the hive.

Because of the honeybees; crops, flowers, fruits, vegetables and honey are part of the landscape.

The warm weather enables us to be very productive but we also must survive the harsh winter months and must work together to keep all our bees warm including the queen bee, her mate and the worker bees, baby bees and the nurse bees.

Bees communicate with each other through our buzzing and also through dance.

Bees dance to provide a way of communicating their need for food and resources near the hive.

We also have beekeepers who make sure we are safe and protected and they enable us to pollinate and they assist us in our production of honey.

We work as a team with each other and with the beekeepers.

We depend on each other and cooperate with one another.

Making honey and spreading pollen to produce crops, fruits and vegetables is our gift to everyone and I’m so proud of what we do because

I’m a honey bee.