Honeybee Project
General information links:
Honey Bee Facts
Ask the expert -Ask any bee or pollination related question to the Agriculture Network Information Center.
Links for Pollinators:
How do bees make honey?
Just what are bees, anyway? -Info from GEARS (Global Entomolgy Agriculture Research Server) scroll down to "Why are Bees So Important?"
Everything about Honeybee
An Apple for Your Teacher- Bees and Apple Pollination
www.ces.uga.edu/pubcd/b1045-w.html (scroll to Pollination, also scroll Table 2 at bottom)
www.honey.com/kids/pollnmap.html
queenbeejan.com (click on Bees and Seeds, also click on Are There Bees in your Clover?)
www.insecta-inspecta.com/bees/honey (scroll to Pollination)
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/multimedia/hive.html(click Start, click Next, click Pollination, then follow slides)
Links for Producers:
Beeswax and Candlemaking
Insecta Inspecta World - Scroll down for three products - Honey, Beeswax and Propolis.
http://www.honey.co.nz/index.asp?0(click on Bee Venom, also click on Royal Jelly, also click on Bee Pollen)
Use the books in the media center to find more information about what products bees make.
Links for Problem Hunters:
http://queenbeejan.com/threats_to_our_bees.htm(read the paragraph on this link, then click on Bee problems)
Bee Decline May Spell End of Some Fruits, VegetablesBee killer imperils crops
View the Waggle Dance:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/danceswagg.html