Kirstens Honey Bees

To make honey, a honey bee extracts nectar from flowers and takes it back to the hive. There she deposits the nectar into the hives honeycomb and seals it up to keep it clean and safe. A bee makes 154 trips for one teaspoon of honey! To gather enough nectar for a pound of honey, a bee flies a distance equal to three trips around the world! while gathering nectar, a honey bees legs also collect pollen from the flowers. This is brushed off as she flies from flower to flower, helping the plant to pollinate and reproduce. Only female bees make honey in the hive. Kirstens school is in need of more schoolbooks. To help out, Kirsten is selling honey made from her familys beehives. With each schoolbook costing 5. 00, Kirsten will have to sell a lot of honey. Fortunately, if s summer on the prairie and the bees are at their busiest! How many jars can you help Kirsten sell Good luck! Kirstens parents are the bee honey makers. However they are not at home today. So could you give Kirsten a hand to make honey and sell them Go make tons of honey to earn money.