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Videos to support the Key Stage 3 module on bees

Here are two videos taken by one of our educators, Carolyn Boulter.

Bee foraging

Bee foraging on ivy.

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Jim Grierson on Darwin's comb building experiment

Jim Grierson of the Kent Bee-Keeper's Association talks to Dr Carolyn Boulter about Darwin's experiments to show how honeybees build their distinctive combs.

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Here are two videos from ARKive on honeybees.
 

ARKive video - Honey bees swarming ARKive video - Honey bee eggs and larvae in cells, emerging from cell. Adult performing waggle dance

The BBC has a number of videos from its natural history unit on honeybees. There is also a video on the BBC News pages with Top Ten Facts about bees.

Two other species of bee, the bumblebee and Melipona, a stingless bee from Central and South America, make very different nests.





See more videos to support learning about the natural world.