Honey Bees

Hello! My name is Becca. My my behavioral ecology experiment I chose to study honey bees. I wanted to observe honey bees for a couple reasons. I wanted to learn about honey bees because I knew nothing about them, but seem to fear them because of their sting. Also I love honey and was very curious how it was made. I started watching the honey bees from near by the hives just outside the MA garden, but recently I have been watching the bees inside the garden especially the ones that gather around the bed of lettuces. I have found it very interesting how it is hard to attract the honey bees when I am near the hives because they already have distinct flight patterns to specific flowers and straight back to the hives. A cool fact I learned about honey bees flight patterns is that they communicate the route to food by dancing! A bee will return to the hive after sucking nectar and then perform a dance on the side of the hive; the angle at which the bees dances in relation to the wall is the angle they are telling the other bees to fly in relation to the sun to find the best food!

I am 17 years old and I live in San Francisco. I recently started running on my schools cross country team and I also play soccer. My favorite food to bake and eat are brownies.