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Garden bumblebee
Patchwork leafcutter bee
Red mason bee
Red-tailed bumblebee
Tree bee bumblebee
Common carder
Honeybees are extremely important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. This means that they help plants grow! Bees transfer pollen between the male and female parts of a plant, and plants can then grow seeds and fruit.
Top Five Bee Facts
There are more than 25,000 different species of bee in the world!
Male honeybees in the hive are called drones and they do not have a stinger.
Worker honeybees are females. They do all the different tasks needed to operate and maintain the hive.
An average beehive can hold around 50,000 honeybees.
The queen bee lays all of the eggs in a colony. At the height of the season, she may lay over 2,500 eggs per day!
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