How Do Bees Make Honey?
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[MUSIC]The western, or European honeybee, pollinates three-fourths of the fruits, veggies and nutswe eat. We’d be in trouble without ‘em. Of course, there’s a reason we don’t callthem zucchini bees, almond bees, or apple bees. They also give us honey.[MUSIC]One healthy hive will make and consume more than 50 kg of honey in a single year, andthat takes a lot of work.Honey is made from nectar, but it doesn’t come out of flowers as that golden, stickystuff. After finding a suitable food source, bees dive in head-first, using their long,specially-adapted tongues to slurp tiny sips of nectar into one of two stomachs.A single bee might have to drink from more than a thousand flowers to fill its honeystomach, which can weigh as much as the bee itself when full of necta...
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[MUSIC]The western, or European honeybee, pollinates three-fourths of the fruits, veggies and nutswe eat. We’d be in trouble without ‘em. Of course, there’s a reason we don’t callthem zucchini bees, almond bees, or apple bees. They also give us honey.[MUSIC]One healthy hive will make and consume more than 50 kg of honey in a single year, andthat takes a lot of work.Honey is made from nectar, but it doesn’t come out of flowers as that golden, stickystuff. After finding a suitable food source, bees dive in head-first, using their long,specially-adapted tongues to slurp tiny sips of nectar into one of two stomachs.A single bee might have to drink from more than a thousand flowers to fill its honeystomach, which can weigh as much as the bee itself when full of necta...
