Struggling to Remember

1. The colours and patterns on a turtles shell help it to

blend in with the forest floor. This is known as
________ . Camouflage

2. Why do giraffes have long necks and rough tongues?

To reach leaves on trees

3. How would sharp teeth help animals survive?

Animals can use them to attack their prey.

4. Both plants and animals will benefit from adaptations

to improve their chances of survival. True or False?
True
 Bees!
Wednesday 30th November 2022
Bees
• There are over 16,000 known species of
bees across 7 biological families.

• This includes bumblebees and

honeybees, both of which are social
insects that form colonies with a single
queen.

• They live on every continent except for

Antarctica.
Why do you think bees are so important?
Pollination
Bees are one of the many insects we rely on to fertilise flowering
plants.

Pollination is crucial because many of our vegetables, fruits and the

crops we feed our livestock rely on it to be fertilised.
Pollination
These are some of the fruits and vegetables that rely on pollination by
bees:
Pollination
How much do you think it would cost farers in the UK to manually
pollinate their crops each year?

£1.8 billion
Making Honey
Bees are also essential in making honey, globally making around 1.8
million metric tons each year.
Bees in the UK
There are over 250 bee species in the UK, including 24 species of
bumblebee. The most abundant are:

• Tree bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) This is the

organisms scientific
• Red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidaries)
name The first word
tells us the
• White-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum)
organisms genus,
• Common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum) the second its
species.
The Honeybee
There is also one species of honeybee in the UK, although it is rare to
find a truly wild colony after having been domesticated for centuries.

Apis mellifera
 The Honeybee
Kingdom: Animalia
Classification

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta Scientists classify every
organism ever discovered in
Order: Hymenoptera this way by sorting them into
groups.
Family: Apidae
Discuss with your groups what
Genus: Apis you think the groupings of the
Species: A. mellifera honeybee tell us about it.
Honeybee Anatomy Extension: Suggest what might
be missing from the diagram.

Stick in your diagram of a honeybee and try to add the following labels
to it.
KEYWORDS:
Head
Thorax
Abdomen
Forewing
Hindwing
Eye
Antenna
Foreleg
Middle leg
Hind leg
Honeybee Anatomy
Antenna
Eye Head

Thorax
Foreleg
Forewing

Middle
leg Hind wing

Abdomen
Hind
leg
Identifying Bees

You are going to identify 9 different species of bees using a statement

key. Look at each picture in turn and answer the questions on the
statement key until you end up with a species name.

Scientists use statement keys to help identify what

species an organism is.
They are particularly useful when sampling out in the field.
 Does it have bands of colour on its abdomen?
Yes No

Is the end of its abdomen Is the end of its

brown/yellow? abdomen white?
Yes No No Yes

Does it have Does it have long Does it have yellow Tree bumblebee
more than 2 antennae? legs?
bands of No Yes Long No Yes
Wool carder bee
colour on its horned
abdomen? bee
Does it have a Is it mainly black?
white tip to its
Yes abdomen? No Yes Common
Banded
No Yes white mourning bee
No Does it have tailed Brown carder
‘horns’ on Honeybee bumblebee bee
its head? Shrill carder bee
No
Early bumblebee Yes Red mason bee
Identifying Bees
1. Banded white tailed bumblebee
2. Early bumblebee
1 2 3
3. Brown carder bee
4. Tree bumblebee
5. Shrill carder bee 4 5 6
6. Honeybee
7. Common mourning bee
7 8 9
8. Wool carder bee
9. Long horned bee
Homework – Due Thursday
8/11/22
• On Educake (Access through Google or Teams)

• Questions on Food Chains and Ecosystems

• 10 questions should take about 10 minutes

• Pass Mark = 80% (keep trying until you get it)

The Waggle Dance

Honeybees have evolved an interesting way to let the rest of the hive
know where a good source of food is – the waggle dance!