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Beehive Research Paper

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It is spring and you feel a warm spray of sunshine on your back as an insect buzzes by your ear and floats through the air and is lost in the swarm of other bees as it drifts toward the hive. This brings up the question that you have been wondering. What goes on inside a beehive? What do bees do for there job? Well, bees do different jobs according to their age. It takes them approximately two weeks to become a small egg lain by the queen to become a fully developed worker bee. “Upon hatching, each fledgling bee immediately cleans out its hatching cell to prepare it for the next egg. Its first duty as a working member of the hive is to care for the young” said hobby farms. It then becomes a undertaker and cleans the hive of dead bees and unwanted

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