Fred Coey, age l0, of Visalia., Calif., for his question:

What is beebread?

The food for the busy bee hive is stored in waxy cells of the honeycombs. There is lots of plain honey and some special food called royal jelly and there is beebread for the babies. All the recipes are made with honey, axed the honey is made from sweet flower nectar gathered by the busy workers.

The richest bee food is royal jelly. It is served to the queen bee and also to the newly hatched babies. each bee egg is cradled in a waxy, six sided cell, and when it hatches into a tiny worm, the nursemaid bees give it a drop of royal jelly. But in three days the baby is ready for beebread. The nursemaid bees mix the beebread formula from honey and dusty pollen.