Free Bee Coloring Pages (Print and Download PDFs)

Super Fun Facts About Bees for Kids

Have you ever been stung by a bee? If not, luck you. I’ve been stung once. It was terrible because I felt a painful, burning sensation. Did I scream after the bad guys gave me one of their hot stings? Yes. And I learned that I mustn’t poke my nose into other creatures’ business.

Now back to the unique facts about bees. 

• Why are bees important? It’s because they’re brilliant pollinators. Bees help vegetables, fruits, and flowers grow. They carry pollen from one plant to another. It allows the plants to produce more seeds.
• A colony or hive is home to bees. It has a queen, workers, and drones. 
• The queen is the boss of the hive and lays eggs (about 2500 eggs a day) to make sure bees continue living.  Eggs develop into an adult after 21 days. The queen also releases chemicals to lead other bees.
•  A queen can go for five years living in the hive. 
• I guess you’ve seen bees flying around. These bees are called workers, which are all female. They gather nectar and pollen from flowers, beat their wings to clean the air, build and keep the hive safe.
• Workers can visit between 50-100 flowers in a single trip. 
• Workers live between five and six weeks after producing a small amount of honey. It’s a drop in a teaspoon.
• You’re familiar with the word drones. Bees have drones, which are male bees. They mate with the queen and live in a hive in hundreds during summer and spring. However, some bees tell the drones to march out of the colony during winter. 
• How many eyes does a bee have? Five eyes and six legs. 
• Scientists say that there are over 20,000 different kinds of bees.
• What color is a challenge for bees? Red. But they can see the rest of the colors.
• Bees have a sharp sense of smell to locate flowers with pollen. That’s because each bee has odorant receptors numbering 170. They’re also helpful for communication in the colony.
• Bees pollinate over 100 plants in the United States.
• How many bees do you think a colony can contain? About 50,000 bees. 
• Ever heard of Carpenter bees? They can dig up a tunnel nearly two inches deep and 10 feet long. 
• Bees are excellent flyers because they can travel about 15 miles per hour. Their wings can beat 200 times a second. 
• Some places in the world now have a few colonies of bees. It seems bees are becoming fewer and fewer in some areas.

Free Printable Bee Coloring Pages

Remember I told you that I messed up with bees and received a hot sting. I hope you won’t do that, too. But I know you’ll have lots of fun with free printable bee coloring pages. The illustrations are ideal for young children of all grades to ignite their creativity and improve color recognition.

Kids require crayons to create incredible bee coloring pages. Each honey bee coloring page offers kids a variety of activities. Some illustrations include: 

• Honey bee
• Worker bee
• Queen bee
• Baby bee
• Pollen
• Nectar
• Honeycomb
• Bumblebees

Children can display their remarkable pieces of art in a coloring book. It’ll motivate them to try other coloring pages, such as butterfly coloring pages, Christmas coloring pages, etc.