CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How do bees make honey?

First of all, bees have many types of jobs, with detailed division of labor and each doing its own job. The worker bees that go to collect flowers have a part of their mouth that is professionally called a mouthpart. There is a long and thin straw on the mouthpart. They suck the nectar into their second stomach, which some also call a honey sac. In the process of collecting nectar, they also secrete a kind of saliva, which contains a conversion enzyme. The worker bees store the nectar and saliva in the honey sac, and when it is full, they fly back to the hive and spit it out.

Because freshly collected nectar is basically a kind of plant sucrose, it needs to be fermented and converted into glucose and fructose through the saliva of the bees. More importantly, this freshly collected nectar contains a lot of water. Generally speaking, water accounts for 80%. Even if the nectar is processed by the honey sac, it still contains about 60% water when it enters the hive.

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First, when the outdoor worker bees are collecting honey, when their storage stomachs are filled with nectar, they will return to the hive and spit it out mouth to mouth to the indoor worker bees. The indoor worker bees will swallow and spit out the nectar between their stomachs and mouths more than 100 times, using the invertase in their bodies to break it down into sweeter monosaccharides, and then spit it out into the hive. Then they will flap their wings to speed up the drying of the honey. When it reaches a sticky state, the honey will be dried.

The honey process does not end after the collecting bees return to the hive. It still needs to be processed by the housework bees. There are two main aspects of the processing by the housework bees. The first is to remove the moisture in the nectar. This process generally involves scattering the honey in the cells to expand the area to dissipate the moisture.

Although I have it at home, it’s hard for me to say it out loud.