What Do Bees Do All Day?
Koko discovers how bees collect nectar, make honey, and help flowers grow while working together as a team.
About this story
Koko discovers how bees collect nectar, make honey, and help flowers grow while working together as a team.
What you'll learn
- Bees collect nectar from flowers
- Bees make honey and help flowers grow
- Bees work together in a hive
Owlo, look at all these pretty flowers in the school garden! They smell so nice.
They are beautiful, Koko. Do you hear that buzzing sound? Look closely at that yellow flower.
Oh! There is a fuzzy bee on it. The bee keeps moving from flower to flower. What is it doing?
That is a wonderful question, Koko. What do bees do all day?
Bees are very busy little workers. They visit flowers to collect something special called nectar. Nectar is sweet like juice.
Sweet like my apple juice? Yummy! But why do they want the nectar?
Great thinking! Bees take the nectar back to their home, which is called a hive. Then they work together to turn it into honey.
Oh! Honey is what I put on my toast. Bees make that? Wow!
Yes, exactly! But that is not all they do. When bees visit flowers, they also collect yellow dust called pollen on their fuzzy bodies.
I can see yellow on that bee. It looks like it rolled in paint!
Ha! That does look silly. When the bee flies to the next flower, some pollen falls off. This helps new flowers grow.
So bees help make more flowers? That is really nice of them.
It is! Bees are very helpful. Inside the hive, there can be thousands of bees all working together like a big team.
Thousands? That is more than I can count! What else do they do in there?
Some bees take care of baby bees. Some bees build the hive with wax. Some bees guard the door. Everyone has an important job.
Just like how I help mom set the table and my brother takes out the recycling! Bees are good helpers too.
Exactly right, Koko. Teamwork makes everything easier. The queen bee is in charge, and she lays eggs so more bees can be born.
Can we pretend to be bees? I want to buzz around like them!
That sounds fun! Let us gently walk from flower to flower. We can look closely but not touch. We should let the bees do their work.
I am buzzing to this purple flower. Now I am flying to the pink one. This is fun!
You are being a very good bee, Koko. Now you understand how hard bees work every single day from sunrise to sunset.
They must be tired! Do bees sleep?
They do rest at night inside their cozy hive. Then they wake up and start working again when the sun comes up.
Bees are amazing! I did not know they did so many things.
They truly are special. Now, can you tell me what you learned about what bees do all day?
Well, bees fly to flowers and collect sweet nectar to make yummy honey. They get pollen on their fuzzy bodies and help new flowers grow. They all live together in a hive like a big family. They work as a team and everyone has a job. Bees are super busy and very helpful! Tomorrow, can we learn about butterflies?
That was perfect, Koko! And yes, butterflies would be wonderful to explore. Now let us thank these hard-working bees for all they do.
Thank you, bees! You are the best little workers ever!
