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Honeybee Habitat Cards

Read each habitat card, then solve the field-notes challenges. Honeybees need food, water and a safe place for their colony. Nectar is a sugary liquid; pollen is a powder made by flowers. Bees can carry pollen between flowers, helping plants make seeds and fruit.

Habitat cards

Explore places honeybees may find food, water or shelter. A habitat is a place where an organism gets what it needs to live.

MEADOW An open area with grasses and wildflowers. Many flowers can provide nectar and pollen.

ORCHARD A place where fruit trees grow. Bees visiting blossoms can help pollinate the trees.

GARDEN A planted space with flowers, herbs or vegetables. A variety of blooms can provide bee food.

FOREST EDGE The boundary between trees and open land. Flowering shrubs and trees may provide food and shelter from wind.

CLOVER FIELD A field with clover flowers. Bees can gather nectar and pollen from the blooms.

WATER SOURCE A shallow, safe place to drink. Pebbles or sticks can give bees a landing spot.

FLOWER The plant part that may provide nectar and pollen. Bees visiting flowers can move pollen between them.

BEEHIVE A home for a honeybee colony. Inside, bees build wax comb to store food and raise young.

Field notes: help the bees

A community garden is planning a bee-friendly space. Use the habitat cards and your science thinking to choose helpful actions.

1.A honeybee is visiting a flower in an orchard. Which two things might it collect from the flower?
2.Match each habitat to its best description.
  • Orchard
  • Water source
  • Beehive
  • Forest edge
  • A shallow place to drink
  • Where trees meet open land
  • A colony’s home
  • Fruit trees in bloom
3.A honeybee visiting an orchard blossom may help pollinate the fruit tree.
TrueFalse
4.Which water source would be safer for bees to land at and drink from?
  • A deep bucket with steep sides
  • A shallow dish with pebbles
  • A fast-flowing stream
5.Bees gather sugary from flowers and can carry between flowers.
6.Benjamin sees trees on one side, open grassland on the other, and flowering shrubs along the boundary. Which habitat card best fits this place? Give one clue that helped you decide.
7.Which plan is most likely to provide honeybees with food throughout more of the growing season?
  • Plant several kinds of flowers that bloom at different times
  • Plant one kind of flower that blooms for a short time
  • Remove all flowers and leave only bare soil
8.Sort these habitat cards into natural features and human-made features: meadow, orchard, water dish, forest edge, garden, beehive. Some places can be shaped or managed by people, so explain one choice that could fit more than one group.
9.The garden has flowers but no safe water source. Suggest one simple improvement and explain how it could help honeybees.
10.Draw a small habitat that gives honeybees food, water and shelter. Label at least three features, such as flowers, a water dish with pebbles, flowering shrubs or a hive.

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  • Honeybee Habitat Cards, page 1 of 3: Habitat cards, Field notes: help the bees

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  • Honeybee Habitat Cards, page 2 of 3: 2. Match each habitat to its best description.

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  • Honeybee Habitat Cards, page 3 of 3: 8. Sort these habitat cards into natural features and human-made features: meadow,…

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