Innholdsfortegnelse for July/August 2021 i Click Science and Discovery Magazine for Preschoolers and Young Children

Bees are insects. So are butterflies, dragonflies, and ladybugs. Insects come in lots of shapes and sizes. What makes them all insects? Head Every insect has three body parts—head, thorax, and abdomen. The front part, the head, is where you’ll find an insect’s eyes and mouth (but no nose). Antennae Most insects have a pair of antennae on their heads. Antennae are sometimes called feelers, and insects do use them to touch and feel. But their main job is to smell things. Bees taste with them too. Thorax An insect’s middle section is called the thorax. It’s where the insect’s legs and wings are attached. It’s hard to see where the thorax starts and ends on a fuzzy bumblebee. Abdomen The abdomen is at the end of the insect’s body.…

I chew through the wax cap that covers my little cell in the hive. Hello, world! Here I am, the hive’s newest worker bee. My mom is the queen bee. You might think that makes me a princess. But the queen is the mother of every honeybee in the hive. Her main job is to lay eggs. All the girls that hatch are worker bees. There are tens of thousands of us. Boy bees are called drones. There are only a few hundred of them in our hive. They are bigger than us worker bees but smaller than the queen. Their only job is to mate with new queens. Worker bees like me have lots of jobs. But the ones we do change depending on how old we are. We…

Beatrix heard a humming as she walked through the park on her way home from school. She followed the sound to a hollow oak tree. A cloud of wild bumblebees flew in and out of a hidden beehive like it was the world’s busiest airport. Bea crept closer. The bees flew zigzags and crazy eights. They hovered and dove. They zipped out fast but flew home slowly, their tiny bodies weighed down with pollen and nectar. Bea visited the hive every day. She watched the bees flit from flower to flower, buzzing with happiness as they collected food for their family. Then one day, the tree was silent. A lonely butterfly circled the oak tree, looking for its friends. Its friends were gone. The next day at school, Bea told…