The Life Cycle of Wasps and Bees
- Grade Level: Upper Elementary (4-6)-Senior High (10-12)
- Subjects: Life Science
- Produced By: Rainbow Boomerang Videos
- Year: 1998
- Country: Australia
- Language: English
- Running Time: 20m
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Wasps and bumblebees have a special type of social system. Their colonies are made up of many sterile female workers, who care for the offspring of one or a few fertile queens. Topics include after emerging from hibernation, the queen starts the new colony by herself; female workers are produced and start to forage; unfertilized eggs (males) are laid; males and new queen emerge, the colony disintegrates and the new queens hibernate.