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The Beehive

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

PROPOLIS
Bees seal every gap in the hive with propolis, a resinous mixture gathered from tree buds that acts as a natural antimicrobial varnish.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ROYAL
Royal jelly is the rich secretion fed exclusively to a developing queen; the same egg that becomes a worker will become a queen if her diet changes.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SWARM
When a colony swarms, the old queen leaves with roughly half the workers, a spectacular mid-air cloud that is the hive's way of reproducing itself.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BROOD
The brood, eggs, larvae, and pupae, is kept in the warm heart of the comb, where worker bees regulate the temperature to a steady 95 °F.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Beehive word search, free and large-print. Step inside the colony: comb, wax, honey, and the quiet hum of ten thousand wings.

About The Beehive

Inside a hive, geometry reigns. Worker bees build each six-sided cell to a precision that engineers still marvel at, filling them with cured nectar or carefully tended brood. The queen moves through it all in a slow, purposeful procession, attended, fed, and never still for long. In the warmth of the cluster, winter becomes something the colony simply waits out together.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
  2. 2
    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
  3. 3
    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
  4. 4
    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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