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How do bees make honey?  In bullet form…

You can read and watch a video about bees here and here.

• The female worker bee receives information about where the nectar or pollen source is. The directions are based on the position of the sun.
• The worker bee flies to the flower and uses long tube like tongue to drink the nectar
• The worker bee decides to collect either pollen or nectar but not both on the same trip.
• It works about 10 hours per day and visits between 150 and 1500 flowers per day.
• The bee stores the nectar in a cavity that is connected to its stomach. The bee can use the nectar if it gets hungry but mostly saves the nectar for the hive.
• When the bee is full, it flies back to the hive where other hive bees collect the nectar.
• When the hive bee drinks the pollen out of the worker bee, it combines the nectar with proteins and puts the new liquid in a cell in the honey comb.
• The bees flap their wings to create wind currents inside the hive and dry the nectar to about 16% water content. Now it’s honey.
• The bees feed on the honey and so do we.

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Here are a few Bee tid bits I found on Encyclopedia.com

• Honeybees live in large colonies that can survive many years.  
• There are three types of honeybee within each colony. They are the queen, drone and the worker bee.  
• The queen can live the longest while the drones and workers live about 45 days.  
• The queen and workers are female and the drone is the male.  
• The queen has a singular job of reproduction and the drone has a singular job of fertilization.  
• All of the other work is done by the worker bee.
• Bees mix the nectar inside their bodies and deposit it in the honeycomb where it dehydrates into honey.  
• The worker bee secretes the wax from glands under the abdomen to make honeycomb.

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