PREP/1 BEE DETECTIVES TERM 1 2025
Prep-One Pademelons have shown a keen interest in the remarkable life of bees as part of our pollination science inquiry for Term 1. We started our Bee Detective journey by inviting local beekeepers Lori Lakos and Alyce Hensby from Derwent Valley Beekeepers Association into our classroom to help find some answers.
Lori helped us to understand the role and equipment beekeepers need to keep themselves and bees safe and healthy. We closely observed the inside of a hive and discovered the Queen Bee can lay up to 1500 eggs a day! This was followed by a mouth-watering raw honey taste testing.
Thank you Alyce Hensby and Lori Lakos for sharing such valuable information about these incredible insects. Here are some the fascinating comments students wanted to share about their experience:
- The queen bee has only one job, to lay eggs. - Jinta
- Bees talk to each other through smell. - Tom
- They flap their wings to keep the hive cool or warm. - Evie
- All bees have three different body parts: a head, thorax and abdomen. - James
- The queen bee can sting without dying. - Austin
- There is no king bee in a bee colony. - Carson
- They have five eyes. - Cleo
- They produce honey from nectar in flowers. - Lucas
