Dear Molly

Greetings friends!
I recently received a great email from one of my dear friends, Molly. I want to share her message and her great question with all of you!

Here is her letter:

   Dear Eco,

I have ants in my house. 

The sun is out and it's really beautiful to play outside.

We have bees living in our wall.  We found a hole in the brick. The bees left yellow powder right outside the hole. Then the bees plugged up their hole all by themselves.  What kind of bees are they?

Good bye Eco, I love you.
Love, Molly

I also want to share my response with all of you, too. Some of you may have the same question!

Dear Molly,

Bees sometimes can be a problem. But usually its only a problem that lasts for a short time instead of forever. They only live in a hive for a short time. Then they leave and find a new place. I found a really cool video about getting bees out of a house. Make sure you ask your parents permission to watch it! http://www.wimp.com/beesextracted/

 I would guess that you have honey bees. Honey bees like to live in colonies (alot of family members living in the same place). There are alot of bees that live around us don't live in colonies, too. They live by themselves.

The yellow powder is pollen from flowers! When a bee eats from a flower it gets the pollen all over its legs. When it brings that pollen to other flowers it helps those flowers make baby flowers. So when they come back home to their hive it just gets knocked off their legs.

Great questions Molly!

Love,

Eco


Thank you so much Molly! I can't wait for more amazing emails!
 Eco