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Honeybees collect sweet nectar from flowers and bring it back to their hives. There it is stored for future use, because its sugar provides honeybees with the energy they need. The nectar is stored as honey, which is a thick, concentrated form of nectar that has been converted in the bees' digestive tracts. Honey is stored in little compartments or cells in the hive, which the bees seal over with beeswax which they also produce. We call this honey-filled wax honeycomb. Beekeepers take honeycomb from the hive (leaving enough behind for the bees), using the wax for candle making and the honey to sweeten all kinds of foods.
they collect pollen.
A honeybee first travels to a flower, where it collects nectar, which is a mixture of mainly sucrose and water. Then, enzymes within the bee turn the sucrose into glucose and fructose. When moisture is evaporated from this substance, 18% water remains, and what is left is known as honey.
I would explain it in a simple way: Honey bees collect pollen and nectar in the spring when most flowers and plants are in bloom. They use their long, tubelike tongues like straws (called proboscis) to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their stomachs and carry it to the beehive. While inside the bee's stomach for about half an hour, the nectar mixes with the proteins and enzymes produced by the bees, converting the nectar into honey. The bees then drop the honey into the beeswax comb, which are hexagonal cells made of wax produced by the bees, and repeat the process until the combs are full. To prepare for long-term storage, the bees fan their wings to evaporate and thicken the honey (note: nectar is 80% water and honey is about 14-18% water). When this is done, the bees cap the honeycomb with wax and move on to the next empty comb, starting all over again. So, in a nutshell, the honey we eat is flower nectar that honey bees have collected, regurgitated and dehydrated to enhance its nutritional properties.
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After they have made more bees they will make honey, wax and propolis.
Wax, which they produce from glands specifically for this purpose.
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What is the western honey bee related to?
a normal honey bee a bee
What is the common name of the Killer Bee?
The common name for the Killer Bee is the Africanized Honey Bee.
What is the honey bees common name?
The common name for honey bees is simply "honey bee."
What does BEE stand for?
do you mean the person that keeps the bees? the beekeeper
What is the mail honey bee called?
A male honey bee is referred to as a Drone
How do you make honey on the alxemy game?
A bee and a flower = Honey!
How do you make honey alxemy?
bee+flower=honey :)
How do you make honey on alxemy?
bee+flower=honey :)
What is a honey bee's job?
To make honey and pollinate plants.
What are honey bee's jobs?
Of corse they make honey and that is their job!
What is the homonym for 'be'?
A homonym for 'be' is 'bee', which refers to the flying insect that collects nectar from flowers to make honey.
What is necture used for?
The honey bee's use the necture to make honey.
How are city bee and country bees different?
honey make honey
What shape does the honey bee make?
rectagonal
What is Wisconsin state insect?
the honey bee
What happens in honey bee colonies?
The bees raise their young and make honey.
Can bumble bee honey be farmed?
Bumble bees do make honey, but only in small amounts. One colony may make up to a tablespoon of honey in a year. For this reason it is not a practical proposition to farm bumble bee honey.
