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The honey bee is a very unusual kind of insect. ___1___
other insects which live alone, the honey bee lives
as a ___2___ of
a community. These bees live ___3___
in what is known as a bee colony.
The head of the colony is called the queen bee.
She is larger than the___4___
of the bees. Her main task
___5___
the colony is to lay eggs. Most of the ___6___
bees are the worker bees. These bees ___7___
nectar and pollen from flowers. The nectar ___8___
is carried by the worker bees is deposited on the
hive and then converted ___9___
honey. The worker bees also help look ___10___
the young bees. as soon as the eggs are ___11___,
the worker bees feed the young bees ___12___
pollen and nectar. The third type of bee found in
the colony is the drone or ___13___
bee. The main task of ___14___
a bee is to mate with a new queen.
The queen bee has a life ___15___
of about three years. ___16___
this period, she would have ___17___
more than half a million eggs. ___18___
the queen bee is dying, a new queen would be
groomed. This new queen would eventually take ___19___
the 'duties' of the old queen when the ___20___
dies.
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