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Tuesday, 22 September 2020

How do bees make honey?

 How do bees make honey?


Bees are responsible for pollinating three quarters of the world's fruit and

vegetable plants and making yummy honey that most people like.

Some beehives can make upto 1-2kg of honey per year


Firstly bees need a suitable food source.This suitable food

source bees find are flowers. When they get these flowers they use

their tongue and suck out the nectar sometimes bees need upto

1k flowers to fill up a bee’s honey stomach 


Secondly the bees store the nectar in their honey stomach.  

Once the nectar is inside the bees stomach, something called 

enzymes break down the nectar and turn into simple sugars/honey. 


The worker bee then goes to the hive and chuck its out of it

stomach into another house bees stomach the reason why

they do this is to dehydrate the honey once The bees have passed it to

teacher other they then put the honey into a honeycomb and

then once it's in the honeycomb they plug it up with a bees wax cap   


It takes a lot of time for bees to make honey, so enjoy it when you have it.

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