When you see a bee crawl into a flower that’s when you know that
they are collecting the nectar. They then return back to the hive and pass it
onto the working bees.
These
bees’ suck the nectar from the honey bees and chew the nectar for half an hour. After a long time of chewing; they finally
spit it out and into the honeycomb.
The nectar has now been created into thick syrup. When the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal
off the honeycomb with a plug of wax.
In
one year the bees will eat up to120 – 200 pounds of nectar.
WOW
that’s a lot of chewing!!
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Wow, very interesting guys! I'm glad we don't make and eat our food that way. I've always thought that it's pretty amazing that bees make the cells of their hives in the shape of a hexagon.
ReplyDeleteGross!! So when you eat honey, you're really eating a bee's spit? Ewwwww. :) What do they do with the honey when they've finished making it?
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the last time I had honey. I feel I have learnt a lot about teh way that bees make honey.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite thing to eat is rump steak , I wonder where that comes from.