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Inside A Beehive
The chapter's photograph of honeybees on the six-sided combs
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Combs
Follow two insects from what they do in nature to what reaches our homes: honey and silk.
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Honeybees gather nectar into six-sided combs where it changes into honey
Honeybees are one of the insects, which are very useful for us. They build their hives on trees and roofs of old buildings.
Honeybees are usually attracted to sweet smelling flowers. Such flowers produce a sweet liquid called nectar. Honeybees suck nectar from flowers and carry it to the hive where they live.
The chapter's photograph of honeybees on the six-sided combs
Combs
Three items on what bees collect and where they store it
Honeybees are very useful insects that build their hives on trees and roofs of old buildings. They are attracted to sweet-smelling flowers to find food. Honeybees suck from flowers. They carry this sweet liquid back to the hive where they live. The six-sided chambers of beehives are called . Honeybees store the liquid here, where it eventually changes into honey. When choosing from lac, milk, sugar, or flower liquids, we know that honeybees make honey from .
The silk moth spins a cocoon, and silk thread is taken from it
We get silk from silk moths, which grow on mulberry leaves.
The silk moth secretes (which means to generate fluids) a liquid which changes into a fine thread. The moth weaves a cover around itself with this thread.
The chapter's photograph of the silk moth on a leaf
Silk moth
Two items on the silk moth, its food and its cocoon
We get a smooth and shiny cloth from a special type of insect. These useful insects are known as silk moths. To find their food, silk moths grow on leaves. As the insect grows, it secretes a liquid that turns into a fine thread. The cover, weaved by a silk moth, around itself is called a . People collect these special covers to obtain the fine threads and make clothing.
The chapter's activity finding out and drawing the silk moth life cycle
Describe in three or four sentences, or list in order, the stages you found in your research.
How does the cocoon stage you researched match the textbook's description of a liquid changing into a fine thread?