Busy Bees
An informative text about bees: how they help plants make fruit, how they live in a hive and why we should protect them.
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1Bees are small , but they do a very big job. When a bee visits a flower to drink its sweet , yellow dust called to its body. Then the bee flies to the next flower and carries the with it. This helps the plants make fruit and .
2Without bees, we would have fewer apples, almonds, watermelons and many other foods.
3Honeybees live together in a . In one there can be 50,000 bees, but only one queen. The queen lays eggs, and the worker bees collect food, clean the and take care of the babies.
4Today there are fewer bees in the world than in the past. Scientists say that in gardens and fields are one reason. You can help by planting flowers on your balcony.
📘 Glossary
- insects - small animals with six legs
- nectar - the sweet liquid inside flowers
- pollen - yellow dust made by flowers
- sticks - holds on to something
- seeds - small parts of a plant that can grow into new plants
- hive - the home of a group of bees
- lays eggs - puts eggs out of her body
- poisons - substances that can harm or kill living things
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1. Why does a bee visit a flower?Finding details
2. What is pollen?Making inferences
3. Why does the writer say that bees "do a very big job"?Finding details
4. How many queens are there in one hive?Finding details
5. Write TWO jobs of the worker bees.Finding details
6. According to scientists, what is one reason that there are fewer bees today?Main idea
7. What is the main idea of the text?
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