Bees

Essential for pollination and for our food, bees are also fascinating insects. The exhibition introduces their life, that of their cousins the bumblebees, wasps and ants, and the beekeeper's craft.

Panel by panel:

• The honeybee, its anatomy and senses
• Life in the hive: queen, workers and drones
• Dances and communication between bees
• Beekeeping, from Antiquity to today's apiaries
• Bumblebees, carpenter bees and solitary bees
• Wasps, hornets and ants: the great family of Hymenoptera
• Pollination, and bees as sentinels of the environment

Audience: all ages, from 6. Ideal for: a bee week, an educational apiary, a life and earth sciences project.