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Honey Bee
A bee that produces honey and lives in colonies.
Insect
An arthropod with the body divided into a head, thorax, and abdomen; with 3 pairs of jointed legs; and 1 or 2 pairs of wings.
Thorax
The middle of the body of an insect.
Abdomen
The hind portion of the body behind the thorax.
Colony
A group of plants or animals that belong to one species (as a colony of bees).
Hive
The usually above-ground nest of bees.
Queen
The fertile, fully-developed female of social bees whose purpose is to lay eggs.
Worker
The female member of a colony of honey bees that performs most of the work and protects the colony.
Drone
A male bee whose sole purpose is to mate with the queen bee.
Proboscis
A long, tube-shaped bodily part in the mouth region of an invertebrate (organism with no backbone).
Compound Eye
One of 2 large eyes on the sides of a bee's head, which allows the bee to tell the difference between brightness and darkness, movement, and color.
Pollen Baskets
A flat or hollow area bordered with stiff hairs on the hind leg of a bee in which it carries pollen to the hive or nest.
Pollinate
To mark or smudge with pollen.
Solitary
Growing or living alone. Not forming part of a group or cluster.