How do bees make honey ?
We have all seen bees flying from one flower to another collecting nectar. But I had a big question. How do bees collect nectar from flowers and carry that it to beehive where they stay. They are not using buckets to collect !
For this operation, there are worker bees. They fly out from beehive in search of nectar rich flowers. Using their straw like projections, worker bees drink the liquid nectar and stores it in a special chamber inside its stomach.
Within the honey stomach, enzymes break down the complex sugars of nectar into simpler sugars. Now the worker bee returns to beehive , regurgitates modified nectar to hive bee. This hive bee ingests the sugary offering and further breaks down the sugars.
It then regurgitates the modified nectar into a cell of honeycomb. Now these hive bees beat their wings furiously so as to evaporate the remaining water content of nectar. As the water evaporates , sugars thicken to form honey.
Once the work is finished, hive bees seal the honey into cells of honeycomb for later consumption. They are doing all these works, for themselves and not for us.
We humans kill these hardworking bees and take away the honey which was stored in honeycomb. I am feeling the cruelty of humans in snatching the food of others.
We have all seen bees flying from one flower to another collecting nectar. But I had a big question. How do bees collect nectar from flowers and carry that it to beehive where they stay. They are not using buckets to collect !
For this operation, there are worker bees. They fly out from beehive in search of nectar rich flowers. Using their straw like projections, worker bees drink the liquid nectar and stores it in a special chamber inside its stomach.
Within the honey stomach, enzymes break down the complex sugars of nectar into simpler sugars. Now the worker bee returns to beehive , regurgitates modified nectar to hive bee. This hive bee ingests the sugary offering and further breaks down the sugars.
It then regurgitates the modified nectar into a cell of honeycomb. Now these hive bees beat their wings furiously so as to evaporate the remaining water content of nectar. As the water evaporates , sugars thicken to form honey.
Once the work is finished, hive bees seal the honey into cells of honeycomb for later consumption. They are doing all these works, for themselves and not for us.
We humans kill these hardworking bees and take away the honey which was stored in honeycomb. I am feeling the cruelty of humans in snatching the food of others.
