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by Floris Elementary Students

Cougar, the Killer Bee

 

 
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Butterfly 

Cockroach 

Damselfly 

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Firefly 

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Hercules Beetle 

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Monarch Butterfly 

Mosquito 

Preying Mantis 

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Freddy: Hello, today on Freddy Talk we are going to slash through the bee hive and have a chat with a special guest. Cougar. the killer bee. Let's cut  right to the chase. the question the people want to know is  - do you kill humans? 
Cougar: That is a good question. We killer bees will never attack humans unless they provoke us. You see, if we sting a person we die because the stinger and venom sac is ripped out of us and stuck in the human. It turns out we die and the human can just scrape the stinger out of him. That is why we only sting to protect our colony. 

Freddy: Why are you called killer bees? 

Cougar: We are called killer bees because we have killed some animals. We do this by teamwork. The whole colony, when provoked, can kill a cow in 5 minuets! If you donít want to provoke us stay 100 meters away when using machinery of playing interments and don't try to shot or destroy our nest. Besides that, we wont harm you. 
Freddy: So what on the menu tonight, raw steak? 

Cougar: That is just a myth. We actually eat honey and nectar like our neighbor the honey bee. Like I said before, if we sting something we will die. 

Freddy: Tell me a little about yourself. 

Cougar:  Well ,only my friends call me Cougar, my other nick name is Africanized Honey Bee but my real name is  Apismellifera Scutellata , you can call me Cougar. My antennae are important sensory organs that can move freely.  Through my compound eyes I can't see red or depth but I can movement very well. My stinger is located at the end of my abdomen next to my pocket of venom. The average worker bee hatches from egg in three days. Then we are feed delicious royal jelly for 2.5 days. then the diet is changed to normal nectar and honey for 2.5 days. sealed in a cell for 12 days in witch they spin a cocoon. Then we transform from larva to pupae. After only 20 days since they hatched from they emerge as adult bees.  

Freddy: Where, exactly did you come from? 

Cougar: We were created when a lab forced two different kinds of bees -  The African bees and European honey bees of North and South America to regenerate. A geneticist had  an idea of creating a superior honey bee more suited to tropical conditions.  We were accidentally  released into Brazil in 1956. Ever since we have been moving closer to the U.S. In 1990 a few of our colonies were found in Texas and 1990 along the Arizona border. 

Freddy: Where are you currently working?

Cougar: Well, Iím still working as a worker in the colony. My job is to find nectar and bring it back to the colonies. One of the perks of the job is that I pollinate other flowers and can create new spices of flowers. Other jobs in the colony is the drone but there job is just to regenerate with a female bee. Another job is the soldier bee but I don't like battling so I guess worker fits me just fine. 
Freddy: Well, that's all the time for today. See you next week when we talk to a surprise movie star and dive deep into the anthill nearby.

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