Your Crossword Puzzle This News Letter

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ACROSS

1. used to show other bees where nectar/flowers are.
5. second stage of bee, grub like stage, eats beebread.
6. food produced by bees.
7. a bees home, where it lives with other bees and produces honey.
8. Male bee whose only job is to mate with the queen.
9. guards hive, gathers nectar, makes honey, repairs hive and cleans it. All workers are female bees.
10. the sweet juice produced by flowers, gathered by bees and turned into honey.
12. when a new queen leaves the hive with other bees to start a new hive.
13. combined area of tongue and mandibles.
14. the bees that take care of the eggs, larvae and pupas.
15. the middle section of the bees body, where the legs are connected.
16. area where bees carry the pollen on their bodies (hind legs).
17. the act of transferring pollen from one flower to the other.
 

DOWN

1. someone who cares for and raises bees.
2. a group of bees living together.
3. the only bee that produces eggs.
6. area where honey is stored, also called cells.
11. the bee that goes out and looks for flowers/nectar.
 

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