HoneyBee Vocab Flashcards

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Beekeepers

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The people who take care of bees and collect honey from them.

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Ancestors

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The people in your family who lived a long time ago, like great-grandparents.

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Enclosed

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Means something is surrounded or completely closed off, like a fence around a yard.

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Metamorphosis

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The big change some animals, like butterflies and frogs, go through as they grow.

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Pollination

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The process by which bees and other insects help plants make seeds by moving pollen from one flower to another.

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Habitat

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The natural home or environment where a plant or animal lives, like a forest or a pond.

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Cell

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A six-sided wax cell built by honeybees to store honey, pollen, and their young.

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Drone

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A male bee that mates with the queen bee.

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Worker bee

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A female bee that performs most of the tasks needed to keep the hive running.

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Queen

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The female bee responsible for laying all the eggs that will become female worker bees and male drones. She lives her life inside the hive, attended by worker bees who groom and feed her.