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Yes! Finelly I found a bee hive.I have been looking for one for hours, becuase my class and I all have to write a report on animals and I chose the honey bee. Wow this is one of the biggest bee hives I have ever seen it must have at least 50,000 bees in it! I have to look more closely but first I have to put on my bee keeper suit just to bee safe.I look through my bag of mateirals pushing aside my notebook, camara and a book about honey bees and at the very bottom of my bag I found my suit.I slid it on and was ready to see the home of a honey bee .

This is so cool! The whole inside is covered in little tiny hexugones. Well not really real hexugones, just like hexugone shaped containers that hold honey. I guess that since not a lot of bees are home I might as well take a little honey, so I do. I take a spoon and a jar out of my bag and fill the jar halfway with nice, stickey honey. I looked …show more content…

then I rember something that where there is a queen bee there will be some bee eggs. I need to get a picture of those.How will I get the queen bee away so I can see the eggs? Necter I know I packed some. I dig throw my bag and at the bottom I find a jar of home made necter then I take out the spoon I used to take some honey take a big scoop of necter and slide it away.It worked! The queen bee saw it and went to get it. I grabed my camara and sprinted to the hive and after about a minute of serching I found a hole in the top of the hive and when I looked inside and I found a big group of eggs. I take a few quick snaps cause I know the queen bee will be back soon.I get back in the bush and look thwow my info and pictures. Time to go this has been fun and just in time I think I hear the swarm coming back but before I leaave I will give the bees a treat so I slide the jar of necter in front of the hive and run. This has been so great and I have learned so

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