Bees are insects. Bees have wings, and they can beat them very fast.

Honey bees make honey from the sweet nectar of flowers. Bees drink nectar from flowers with their tongues. Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers.

Bees fan their wings to dry nectar into honey. Bees keep honey in wax cells.

A honey bee colony has three kinds of bees. They are a queen, workers and drones. A honey bee hive has one queen.

The queen is the mother who lays the eggs. The queen is bigger than the worker bees.

Most bees in a hive are workers. Workers are all girls. Workers do almost all of the work in the hive.

Drones are the male bees. Boy bees cannot sting. A honey bee dies after it stings a person.

A big hive can have 20,000 to 60,000 bees.

In winter, honey bees huddle together to stay warm.

Words to know

• nectar: sweet flower drink
• drones: male bees