The Difference Between Honeybees and Yellow Jackets

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Buzz Worthy Activities The Difference Between Honeybees and Yellow Jackets

What Is A Honeybee?

Honeybees have:

• 3 body segments: Head, Thorax and Abdomen • 5 eyes: 2 compound eyes, 3 simple eyes • 2 antennae • A barbed stinger/die when they sting • Proboscis – straw like tongue • Pair of mandibles • Pollen sacs on legs • Hairy/fuzzy body • Gold and black color Click here to learn more about Honeybees

What Is A Yellow Jacket?

Wasps have:

• 3 body segments: Head, Thorax and Abdomen • 5 eyes: 2 compound eyes, 3 simple eyes • 2 antennae • A barbless stinger/don’t die when they sting • Proboscis – straw like tongue • Pair of mandibles • Smooth body • Yellow and black color Read more about Yellow Jackets, Wasps and Hornets by clicking here.

Where Does A Honeybee Live?

Honeybees live:

• In large colonies of around 60,000 bees • Live in humanmade beehive boxes • Live in hollow spaces like trees • Live throughout the world • Are not native to North America • Antarctica is the only continent that they don’t live

Where Does A Yellow Jacket Live?

Wasps live:

• In large colonies of usually around 5,000 wasps • Live either in the ground or in aerial locations • Live throughout the world • Are native to North America • Antarctica is the only continent that they don’t live Learn more about beehives and wasp nests by clicking here.

Honeybee Or Yellow Jacket Activity: Draw a Venn Diagram like the one below and list all the characteristics unique to Honeybees on the left and all the characteristics unique to Yellow Jackets on the right, in the middle list all the similarities of Honeybees and Yellow Jackets.

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