--- title: Bees and wasps in the garden — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Bees and wasps in the garden», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: On a sunny day a honeybee lands on a flower, drinks sweet nectar with its long tongue and flies off with yellow balls of pollen packed on its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Bees and wasps in the garden # Bees and wasps in the garden Lesson 218 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/0/) — On a sunny day a honeybee lands on a flower, drinks sweet nectar with its long tongue and flies off with yellow balls of pollen packed on its back legs, like a shopper with two full bags. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/1/) — Back in the hive it does a little waggle dance, and the direction and length of the dance tell the other bees exactly where the flowers are. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/2/) — A honeybee hive is one big family: one queen lays the eggs, thousands of worker sisters do the work, and the nectar they bring is turned into honey, food for the winter. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/3/) — Most kinds of bee are not like that at all: they live alone, in holes in walls and tunnels in the ground, and they almost never sting. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/4/) — Wasps that pester us at picnics in late summer are not villains either: all summer they hunt caterpillars and flies in the garden, and they carry pollen from flower to flower too. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/5/) — Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers; nectar is turned into honey and pollen feeds the young bees. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/6/) — A honeybee does a waggle dance in the hive; the angle and length of the dance tell other bees which way and how far to fly for food. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/7/) — Bumblebees can fly on cold days because they shiver their flight muscles to warm up, and their furry coats keep the heat in. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/8/) — A honeybee worker that stings a person usually dies, because its barbed sting stays in our skin; bumblebees and wasps can sting again and again. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/9/) — Beekeepers wear a suit and veil and puff smoke at the hive; smoke hides the bees' alarm smell and makes them eat honey, so they stay calm. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/10/) — Dandelions and other early flowers are important food for bees in spring, when few other flowers are open. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/11/) — Most kinds of bee live alone; a solitary bee lays its eggs in a hole in a wall, a hollow stem or a tunnel in the ground. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/12/) — A honeybee queen can lay up to about two thousand eggs a day, and the worker bees feed and care for the young. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/13/) — Bees have disappeared from some places because of pesticides (sprays that kill insects), illness and the loss of flowers. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/14/) — Wasps like sweet food in late summer, but they also eat many garden pests such as caterpillars and flies, and some help pollinate flowers. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/15/) — If a wasp comes to your drink, stay calm, cover the drink and move away slowly, because swatting and waving can make it sting. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/16/) — Honey hardly ever goes off, because it is so sugary and dry that germs cannot grow in it. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/17/) — Like every insect, a bee or a wasp has six legs, two antennae and two pairs of wings. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/18/) — All the worker bees in a honeybee hive are females; the males, called drones, do not collect food and have no sting. - ← previous: [Worms, snails and slugs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/) - next →: [Butterflies, moths and ladybirds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)