Happy Thanksgiving!
Here are some pictures we took on our Shelburne Farms Field Trip, "Long Ago and Today." Our focus was on candle making, wool-carding and wool spinning, and farm animals.
Here are some questions you can ask your child about the trip:
- Why are bee keeper clothes white? (bees associate dark colors with predators like bears)
- Why do bees need honey ? (They eat it.)
- How much does a hive of bees need ? (100 pound per winter.)
- How many different kids of honey bees are in a hive? (There are three different kinds of honeybees in a hive: female, drone, queen.)
- How do they know if the queen isn't there? (They can tell... kind-of like how your mom or dad has a special smell -- maybe a cologne -- that lets you know they are in the room even if you're not looking.) In bees we call that scent pheremones.
- Why don't beekeepers put their beehives close together? (If hives are too close together, the bees could fight and stung each other!
- How many bees are usually in one hive? (There are 100,000 in a hive.)
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow! Get to bed early :)
Mr. Bolger
