In the hive Honey bees put all their honey in hives. They make them out of beeswax. Think of a hive as a big building full of tiny rooms. The rooms are called honeycomb cells. Three kinds of bees live in the hive. One is the queen. She is the most important bee in the nest. Drones are male bees who look after the queen. The rest of the bees are female worker bees. They fly around looking for nectar to make honey with. Nectar of flowers Honey is a sweet yellow liquid. Honey-bees make it. They make it from the nectar of flowers. Nectar is a sweet liquid that flowers make. It attracts insects like honey bees, who help flowers 'mate' or pollinate. Nectar is Latin - it means 'drink of the gods'. Humans have eaten honey since the beginning of time. But honey bees collect it for themselves. It is their food. They collect it in the spring and summer. When it's cold and there are no flowers, they have something to eat. Since the beginning of time We know humans have been collecting and eating honey for a very long time because of cave paintings in Spain. They show two women collecting honey. The paintings are 10,000 years old. The ancient Egyptians, more than 4,000 years ago, used honey to sweeten cakes. In Rome, people used to pay their taxes using honey. The health aspect Experts are divided about how healthy honey is. Actually, it is mostly different kinds of sugar and water. It has around the same sweetness as white sugar. But for thousands of years people have used honey as a medicine. The ancient Egyptians used honey in nearly all their medicines. We now know honey is good for healing wounds. It may also help stop scars forming. now do this 1 Nectar is Latin for ... a. honey bee b. drink of the gods c. pollen 2 Bee hives are made of ... a. beeswax b. honeycombs c. honey 3 The three kinds of bees in a hive are the queen, worker bees and ... a. honey bees b. drones c. guard bees Answers: April 22 1. b, 2. c, 3. a
