The Very Hungry Honey Bee

The Very Hungry Honey Bee is a children's book designed, illustrated, and written by Aimee Phillips. The book features a Bee Larva who eats her way through a variety of foodstuffs before pupating and emerging as a Beautiful Honey Bee.



The Very Hungry Honey Bee, simple text with educational themes - counting, the days of week, foods, and a Honey Bee's life stages. it teaches children how to count and to make one-to-one correspondences between numbers and the items the hungry Bee larva has eaten. The Bee larva's diet is fictional rather than scientifically accurate, but the book introduces concepts of Lepidoptera life stages where transformations take place including the ultimate metamorphosis from "hungry Bee larva" to " Beautiful Honey Bee", and it teaches children How Bees make Honey. Bees are not only extremely important for humans, but also for the entire ecosystems to function. As we know, bees allow plants to reproduce through Pollination. These plants contribute to the food system by feeding animals - aside from humans - such as birds and insects.