Honey in a Hive

Honey in a Hive

蜂巢探“蜜”

In spring and summer, this meadow is full of sweet-smelling flowers. Listen! Do you hear a buzzing sound? It comes from the rapidly beating wings of many busy bees.

春夏时节,草地上开满了芬芳的野花。你听到了吗?嗡嗡嗡,嗡嗡嗡!许多忙碌的小蜜蜂飞快地拍打着翅膀。

They are busy gathering nectar, the sweet liquid inside flowers, to make into honey. They are gathering pollen, the yellow powder in a flower, to feed their queen and all her young bees.

它们忙着采集花蜜。花蜜是花朵分泌出的香甜汁液。蜜蜂把花蜜酿成蜂蜜。它们也采集花粉。花粉是花朵里黄色的粉末。蜜蜂把花粉献给蜂王和幼蜂

Bees live in hives filled with honeycombs that they build with beeswax from their bodies. In every beehive there are thousands of bees and one queen, who is much bigger than any of the other bees. She doesn't gather nectar or pollen or do any work, Her job is to lay eggs that will become new bees.

蜜蜂住在蜂巢里。蜂巢由许多蜂房组成,是蜜蜂用身体分泌的蜂蜡建造的。每个蜂巢里都有成千上万只蜜蜂和一只蜂王。蜂王的身体比其他蜜蜂都大。它不去采集花蜜和花粉,什么工作都不用做。它的任务就是产卵，这些卵会孵化成幼蜂。

The queen bee leaves her home to fly high in the sky and mate with many male bees, called drones. Drones don't do any work, either. All they do is mate with the queen so she can lay thousands of eggs. As soon as they have mated with her, they die.

蜂王飞出蜂巢,飞得高高的,和许多雄峰交配。雄峰不用做其他工作,只负责和蜂王交配。这样蜂王才能产下很多很多卵。交配结束后，雄峰就死掉了。

Most bees that hatch inside a hive are worker bees, because there is a lot of work to be done making honey. And workers do all the work not the drones, not the queen. All workers are female, but they don't mate or lay eggs. They gather food, guard and clean the hive, make honey, and feed their queen and her newly hatched bees. The food bees eat is honey made from nectar.

在蜂巢里孵化出来的蜜蜂 ,大多是工蜂。因为酿造蜜蜂 ,需要很多很多蜜蜂辛勤地工作。 这些都是由工蜂来负责的，不是雄峰，更不是蜂王。 所有工蜂都是雌蜂,它们不交配,也不产卵,只负责采集食物,保卫和清洁蜂巢,酿造蜂蜜，给蜂王和新孵化的幼蜂喂东西。蜜蜂的食物就是用花蜜酿成的蜂蜜。