Bee Minibeast Adventure with Jess

Hello, adventurers! I'm Jess.

It's time for a Minibeast Adventure!

# Feelers out, what's about?

# Creeping, sleeping under stones here and there

# Nesting, resting Minibeasts are everywhere

# Minibeasts are everywhere

# Look and listen, stop and stare

# Minibeasts are everywhere

# A Minibeast Adventure!

# Feelers out, what's about?

# Minibeasts are everywhere

# Look and listen, stop and stare

# Mini worlds for us to share

# A Minibeast Adventure! #

With Jess!

Welcome to my treehouse, I'm very excited about this.

Take a look at what I've got here.

This is part of a beehive.

A hive is where bees live and bring up their babies.

People often talk about busy bees, and look, they really are busy.

Can you see the empty holes the bees have made?

They're called cells.

The bees fill them with nectar to make honey.

These cells are full of honey

and the bees put white wax over the top to close them up.

And look at this bee down here.

She is passing over the nectar she has collected to another bee.

Can you see her tongue?

Bees live in big groups where every bee has its own job

and each hive has one queen, which is the biggest bee.

Here she is. The beekeeper has marked her with a yellow spot.

It's the queen's job to lay eggs

which will grow up into more honey bees.

The eggs hatch into larvae.

Look! Here they are.

And they are looked after and fed by nurse bees.

Can you see how some of the cells have lids on?

Inside, the larvae are changing into worker bees

and the nurse bees look after them until they hatch.

Every bee has a job and it's amazing to see them all at work, isn't it?

The bees you'll normally see will be the worker bees

flying from flower to flower, collecting nectar and pollen.

There's sure to be a busy bee visiting flowers near you.

Shall we go and find one?

Come on!

Whatever the weather, we're off together on a Minibeast Adventure!

Hello, William! Hello, Nina!

-Hi, Jess.

-Hi, Jess.

-Brilliant to see you.

-Today we're going on a bee adventure.

-Yay!

Where do you think we might find bees?

In the trees and in the park

and in the bushes and in the grass.

-And in their hives.

-Come on, then!

Feelers out, what's about? We're off on a Minibeast Adventure!

-Jess.

-Yeah?

-There's a bee over there.

-Is there?

-Look, in that flower.

-Wow! Yes, William, can you see it?

-Yes.

They're black and yellow and they eat honey from the trees

-and the flowers...

-They do!

-..and they've got antennae.

-They have got antennae, haven't they?

-And they love flowers.

They love flowers, they love to drink the flowers, don't they?

-Feelers out, what's about?

-Feelers out, what's about? Yeah!

-And what noise does it make?

-Buzz.

-Buzz.

-They have wings.

-They do have wings so they can fly.

And they have a sting.

They do have a sting, but do you think they always want to sting you?

No, only if you upset them

and if they sting you, they'll die.

That's very true, did you know that, William?

If a bee stings you, it will die so it doesn't want to sting you.

-Shall we see if we can find some more over there?

-Yeah.

Come on, then!

Look!

-What's that?

-An ant.

-A bee!

-It is a bee, isn't it?

There's a different one over there, look.

-Yeah.

-Oh, yeah.

-I see one more.

-Two!

-And that's a different type.

-I see another one!

-What did that big one look like?

-I see another one, Jess, look.

-Oh!

It's hiding in the leaf on the flower.

What do you think it's doing in that flower?

It's eating honey and it's hungry.

It's very hungry, what's it eating?

-The honey of the flower?

-Yeah.

And what's this yellow stuff that it's got on its back?

-Pollen.

-Ah! It landed on the leaf.

-It is pollen.

Wow! Look at that, there.

Can you see the yellow baskets of pollen on that bee's legs?

-And he eats honey from the purple flowers.

-Ooh! There it goes.

Ooh! Did you see that? One just flew past my face.

-And it flew over my nose.

-Did it?

-Yeah.

-Did it tickle?

No, it didn't tickle.

How do you know when your tea's ready?

Perhaps your mum calls you.

But a bee tells another bee where a tasty flower is

by doing a waggle dance.

Imagine if your mum did that.

Bees are one of the most important insects

so it's really important for us to look after them.

One of the best things you can do

is plant some flowers for them to eat. I've planted this

-purple one here, would you like to help me plant some more?

-Yeah.

-William, would you like to pick a flower there?

-Yeah.

-Nina, would you like to pick one?

-Yeah.

-Then we can plant them.

-Can you get it out of the pot? That's it, shall I help you?

-Yeah.

Ooh, there you go, well done, and can you do yours?

Very good.

Now, William, if you can put yours right next to mine here

and Nina, if you put yours here.

We've got some little trowels for you to dig holes with.

-That's it, shall I help you?

-Yeah.

Dig a little hole there so it can go in.

Very good.

Well, they look lovely.

Now, I've left this space here for something you might not have

-thought of. This...

-Rocks!

-Rocks

and the dish is for water because bees eat the flowers,

but they also need something to drink.

-Water.

-We'll put some water in there, can you do that for me?

Excellent. And the rocks there are so that the bees can stand on them

-and they don't drown. And would you like to water the flowers?

-Yeah.

Well done. That's it, all of them, give them a nice drink.

-And now...

-What?

..we just have to wait and see if any bees come to our garden.

Perhaps you can make a bee garden at home too

and see if any bees come to you.

I loved that Minibeast Adventure.

Oh, look at them, still working away.

I need to take this back to the hive now

so they can carry on with their work. But you don't need a hive

to see bees, you can just look out around flowers.

Maybe you could even plant them some.

And don't forget to give them a drink of water and remember,

bees don't want to sting you, so just stand back

and watch how amazing they are.

Feelers out, what's about? Happy hunting, adventurers!