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How do bees make honey?

Bees make honey because it is their food. Therefore, the process of making this product is a way of preparing food for a colony of bees.

The first thing a bee does is look for flowers and collect nectar from them. Then she carries it in a special honey bag. This bag-like cavity is in front of the bee's abdomen. There is a valve that separates this section from the abdomen.

The first stage of honey production starts in the cavity of the bee. The sugar contained in the nectar undergoes a chemical reaction. The next step is to remove excess water from the nectar. It is achieved by evaporation, which occurs due to heat and ventilation in the hive.

The honey in the combs brought by the honey bees contains so much natural nectar water that it can last forever! It is placed in honeycombs for maturation in order to serve as food for bees in the future.

By the way, when the bees do not find nectar, they collect all kinds of sweet liquids secreted by beetles, or special plant secretions.

Honey is obtained from the hive in various ways. It can be squeezed out of combs under pressure, or it can be sold in combs removed from the hive. However, most of the honey is extracted from the combs by a machine known as a honey extractor. Using centrifugal force, she forces the honey out of the comb.

Honey varies greatly depending on which flowers the nectar is collected from, where the hive is located. Honey contains a surprising number of substances. The main constituents are two types of sugar known as fructose and glucose. There is also a small amount of sucrose (cane sugar), maltose, dextrin, minerals, various enzymes, numerous vitamins in small quantities, just a little bit of protein and acids.

Honey can be very different in color and taste - it depends on what was the source of the nectar. In areas where honey is produced, there are usually only a few plants suitable for collecting nectar. So, in the northeast of the USA it is clover, in the west it is alfalfa, in Europe it is heather.

Author: Likum A.

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