Friendly Bees, Ferocious Bees
By Mona Kerby
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Friendly Bees, Ferocious Bees will enthrall youngsters by taking them on an amazing journey into the wonderful world of honeybees. Meticulously detailed coverage of queens, drones, and workers; life within the hive; communication among bees; beekeeping, bee diseases, and bee enemies; and a special section of recipes calling for honey. This new e
Mona Kerby
Mona Kerby writes award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and picture books for children. She is a college professor and has been a kindergarten teacher and an elementary school librarian. She has received the Texas Library Association Siddie Joe Johnson Award for outstanding achievement in children’s library service, the Outstanding Teacher Award at Little Elementary School, and the Outstanding Teacher Award at McDaniel College in Maryland where she holds the L. Stanley Bowlsbey Endowed Chair in Education and Graduate and Professional Studies. Her 38 Weeks Till Summer Vacation won the Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award and was nominated to the master lists of the South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award and the Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award. She has written biographies on Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Samuel Morse, and Beverly Sills. Her books Asthma and Cockroaches were named Outstanding Trade Books for Students in K-12 in Science. Owney, the Mail-Pouch Pooch won the California Young Readers Award and the Vermont Red Clover Award; was nominated to five state reading award lists in Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee; was named to the Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year List; and received the Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Award. See www.monakerby.com for more information.
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Friendly Bees, Ferocious Bees - Mona Kerby
FRIENDLY BEES
FEROCIOUS BEES
by
Mona Kerby
– MK Publications –
FRIENDLY BEES, FEROCIOUS BEES
Copyright © 1987 by Mona Kerby
Revised and updated 2017
ISBN 978-0-9993790-3-5
Originally published by Franklin Watts in New York
ISBN 0-531-10303-X
PUBLISHED BY:
MK Publications
Westminster, Maryland
Western honeybee: iStockPhoto / GlobalP
Honeybee anatomy: Wikipedia Commons
Honeybee development: iStockPhoto / lukaves
Worker, drones, queen: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Honeybees at hive entrance: iStockPhoto / lamyai
Honeybee on aster: iStockPhoto / LightShaper
Beekeeper: iStockPhoto / flyparade
Group of bees: iStockPhoto / DanielPrudek
Honeydipper: iStockPhoto / PhotoAllel
Cover design: Elizabeth Beeton
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owners and the above publisher of this book.
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Apis Mellifera
Chapter 2: Parts of the Honeybee
Chapter 3: The Queen, the Drones, and the Young
Chapter 4: Life of the Hive
Chapter 5: Communication
Chapter 6: Beekeeping
Chapter 7: Diseases and Enemies
Chapter 8: Killer Bees
Chapter 9: Bee Hunts
Chapter 10: Cooking with Honey
Glossary
About the Author
Chapter 1:
Apis Mellifera
We are supposedly the smartest species on Earth. Yet, we know relatively little about most other species.
Take, for instance, honeybees. Some people live an entire lifetime and know just two things about them–that they sting and that they make honey.
The scientific name for honeybees is Apis mellifera, which means bee honey-bearer.
But did you know that bees die when they sting you? Did you know that bees have jobs? Did you know that bees air-condition their homes and have done so for millions of years? Did you know that bees communicate with each other? Did you know that honeybees are the only insects that produce a food that humans eat, and that honey is one of the purest foods in the world?
Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, carrying pollen
For at least 17,000 years, humans have risked getting stung for the pleasure of eating honey. In 15,000 B.C., an unknown artist drew a picture on a cave in Valencia, Spain. The picture showed two men climbing up to a beehive. One held a basket. Bees buzzed around him as he robbed the hive. In 3,000 B.C., Egyptian tombs were inscribed with pictures of honeybees. Honey was found in some of those tombs.
It was still good. The Bible referred to a land of milk and honey.
Athletes in the early Greek Olympics ate honey for energy. And Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher, wrote that honey is a dew distilled from the stars and rainbow.
Early people knew that honey was delicious and healthy.
Throughout the centuries, these insects have fascinated people. Many scientists have studied them. Much of what was once believed to be true was found false. Democritus, a Greek philosopher before Aristotle’s time, wrote that if you wanted some bees, you should kill an ox and lock it up for thirty-two days. Bees would come from the ox, he declared. As late as 1842, some people still believed that to be true.
We know more about honeybees today. In this book, you will learn what scientists know about honeybees. You will learn how a bee makes honey. You will learn how the queen, the workers, and the drone bees live together. You will learn about the dances of bees, how bees are endangered, and how to cook with honey. After you have read this book, you will be wiser than the wisest beekeepers of a hundred years ago.
But there are still certain mysteries about honeybees. How does each bee know what job to do? If scientists know the ingredients of beeswax, why can’t they reproduce it? How can a tiny honeybee, with a brain less than half the size of a grain of rice, tell
another bee where there is food? The facts we know