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There are 4 stages to a worker bee’s life cycle:
 Egg: The queen lays all of the eggs that will eventually turn into worker bees.
 Larva: Once the eggs hatch they are little grub-like larvae that are fed by young adult worker bees.
 Pupa: After the larva have grown enough they pupate to change into an adult.

 Adult: Adult bees have many jobs including nurse bees, house bees, guard bees, forager bees and scout
bees. They work to help the colony survive.

Please see page 37 for a fun lesson to teach the bee’s life cycle!

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These are easy to confuse when you are newer to beekeeper jargon! A hive is where a colony of bees live. A hive
can be so many things: a human-made hive box, a human-made top bar hive, or a human made log hive. A hive
can be something natural, too! A log laying on the forest floor can be a hive, a hollow oak tree standing in the for-
est can be a hive. The colony (think family, or superorganism) will live inside this hive space.

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Hive = House Colony = Bees
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