Honeybees!

Hey, hey, hey, my name is Teo. For this project, I’m studying the apis mellifera, which everyone knows as the honeybee. Ever since kindergarten when I had gardening class, I’ve always thought that plants were pretty cool and I learned early just how incredibly important the little buzzing insects were for all plants to grow. My friends and I used to catch honeybees (with empty honey jars) off the rosemary bushes in the garden at my home, and my fascination with these little insects has lasted ‘til this day. For my experiment, I am mainly working in my garden in the backyard, which has olive, pine, orange, and avocado trees in it. I have created a “choice tube” so that I can look at the preference honeybees exhibit for the odor of one flower over the other. One of the coolest things I have observed is how the bees create the comb in the hive in the most intricate and perfect way. As for me, I’m a soccer player, a violinist, and I LOVE fried chicken.