A Sweet Business Week 4 T3
Make a copy and write your responses in full sentences or write in your literacy books.
1 Explain the roundabout way that the idea to have a school beehive came about.
Ruma Koromiko was planning a garden the students learnt about bees and that the population was dropping.
2 What are two (or more), of the benefits mentioned about having a beehive at school?
They would have bees in the school garden and they would have honey for themselves.
3 What do you think the words ‘ongoing costs’ mean?
Ongoing means continuing or still in progress so it means continuing cost.
4 Why couldn’t the students just sell the honey they collected?
According Zealand law honey that’s sold to the public needed to be processed in a commercial kitchen
5 What are varroa treatment strips for?
They get rid of mites because of the contain miticides their chemicals that kill mites and doesn’t harm the bee’s
6 What is a problem with beehives over winter and what can be done to help?
Over the winter there’s less pollen so the bees eat less sugar syrup but you can buy sugar to help the bees.
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