Savethebees

Experiment:

Testable Question: Can I train bees and wasps to learn shapes?

Materials: On an outdoor table, on a sunny day, lay out a large piece of paper 8 ½ by 11. Then, get a black marker and 4 small cups. Make sure to get water and sugar.

Procedure: First, draw 4 shapes on the white sheet of paper with the black marker. The shapes could be a triangle, a circle, a square, and X and so on. You may want to cover the white sheet of paper with plastic or laminate it to protect it from the rain or dew. Place the small cups on each shape except the last one and fill them with water and 25% sugar. On the last cup, you can fill it up with flowers, corn syrup, or a different kind of sugar but, you cannot fill it up with the same sugar and water like the other cups. Do this for 5 days.

See the data chart on the next page!

Hypothesis: For example, if the sugar water is at the triangle, most of the bees and wasps will be coming to the triangle for 5 days, even if there is no sugar water at the triangle.

Conclusion: Our hypothesis was supported. The honey bees and the wasps did come. The sugar water was by the triangle. After 5 days, I moved it to the square. The bees continued to come to the triangle. I proved my hypothesis.

New Questions: Are bees attracted to different colors? Do bees prefer honey to sugar? Does CCD have anything to do with the type of sugar beekeepers feed them? Will different pesticides kill the honey bees?

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