Cheralyn's Comic Life

On Thursday Mrs O'Hanlon brought some honeycomb and dead bee larvae into our classroom to show us. She showed us the clever way that bees tesselate the comb in a hexagonal shape. The honeycomb was from a totara tree down on the bottom field. Mr Barnes found it and called someone to come in and kill the bees because they were inside the tree and he couldn't reach them. Mr Barnes was sad because he didn't want to kill the bees but also he didn't want children to get stung because some of the children might be allergic to their stings. Mr Barnes showed us the tree and how he used tongs to get the honeycomb out because the entrance the bees used was so small. Inside the tree the hole was huge. I found the queen bee but I dropped it. It was amazing to see how much honey and honeycomb the bees produced.