Symbol: Beehive
To earn this badge, do ten of these activities. The two starred are required.
- ★ Know what constitutes a colony of bees and how it lives. (starred)
- Know how nectar is gathered, stored, and how the honeycomb is built.
- Know what part the queen, drones, and workers play in the life of the colony.
- Be able to recognize and describe each of the following: queen, drone, worker, egg, larva, pupa, honey, wax, pollen, broodnest, comb, queen cells, beeglue.
- Assist in hiving a swarm, examining a colony, removing the comb, finding the queens, putting foundations in sections, filling and removing supers, and preparing honey in comb and strained for market. Be able to identify different parts of a hive.
- Know how to fix the hives for the winter months.
- Know which flowers afford the best food for bees, and how honey varies in color and flavor according to the flowers. Know effect, if any, of insect sprays on bees.
- Know how to keep from being stung by a bee and what to do for a bee sting.
- Know as least three recipes in which honey may be used in place of sugar.
- Read Maurice Maeterlinck’s Children’s Life of the Bee or some book or pamphlet on the bee, and tell your troop about it.
- Know something abou tthe habits of wild bees and how you go about finding a colony of them.
- Know the value of having bees wherever plants are grown for food or for pleasure.
- Know how to introduce a new queen into a hive.
- Know what gear is necessary in beekeeping.
- Know the diseases of bees and some of the things that destroy colonies of bees.
- ★ Use some of the information you have gathered, or produce you have raised, for a troop, school, church or synagogue, or other community service. (starred)
- Visit and, if possible, take part in your state or county fair.
From the Girl Scout Handbook. New York: Girl Scouts of the USA, 1947-1949, pages 347-348.
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