Bee Coloring Pages

• Honeybee: slim, golden brown and black, and it lives in a colony of thousands
• Bumblebee: round and fuzzy, with broad black and yellow bands
• Queen bee: the largest bee in the hive and the mother of nearly every bee in it
• Worker bees: all female, and they do the building, cleaning, guarding and flower visits
• Honeycomb: wax cells with six sides that fit together with no gaps
• Beehive: the stacked wooden boxes beekeepers use, or the old-style domed straw skep
• Beekeeper: wears a veil and uses a little smoke to keep the bees calm

Bees feed on flowers. They drink nectar and collect pollen, and as they move from bloom to bloom they carry pollen along, which lets plants make seeds and fruit. Apples, blueberries, almonds and pumpkins all depend on pollinators like bees. A honeybee that finds good flowers tells the others where to go with a waggle dance. One worker makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her whole life. Bees have five eyes: two large ones on the sides and three tiny ones on top of the head.

Real honeybees aren't lemon yellow. Use golden yellow or amber for the light bands and dark brown for the dark ones, with a fuzzy tan middle. Bumblebees are the ones with strong black and bright yellow, and some have a white or orange tail. Wings are clear, so leave them white or shade them with the lightest gray. Color honeycomb in two or three ambers so some cells look full and others empty. A yellow marker with an orange pencil over it gives honey a nice glow.