Do honey bees make honey

Answer 1

Yes, bees need honey for their survival.

Honey is the bees main source of food during winter months.

During warmer seasons, bees usually feast on nectar from flowers. With exception to the Queen who eats "royal jelly". A specially mixed nectar made by her worker bees which contains huge amounts of vitamins, promoting growth and fertility in the Queen.

Any nectar that the bees bring back to the hive are stored in little wax cells. Nectar is actually rather watery. But the heat inside the hive and the fanning of cool air by the bees wings helps the nectar to dry, forming honey.

Once nectar is dry enough the bees will cover it up with wax to protect it.

During colder months when most of the flowers wither and stop producing large amounts of nectar, the bees break open the wax seals on the honeycombs and eat the honey.

Honey, due to the high natural sugar content and humid storage, never spoils. So it can be stored in the hive for months.

Bees are actually a lot more complex and social than most people realise.

They have a complex monarchy system, where the Queen is even fed better food than the rest of the bees. Bees also very carefully ration their honey supplies, so there is always enough to go around. They all have different "jobs" too. Not every bee is a nectar collector. Some bees are assigned to fanning nectar with their wings, others are assigned to babysitting larvae, then there's the Queens personal bodyguard bees, the honeycomb wax sealers, the "guard" bees flying around outside the hive and so on.

So, to answer your question, yes. Bees need honey to feed on during cold, winter months. Until the warmer months when they finally leave the hive again to replace all the honey they ate.

Answer 2

Yes, bees eat their honey.

Specifically, the insect in question (Apis spp) can be a drone, queen or worker bee. The drone gets fed what the colony lets him eat since he cannot access food supplies on his own. The queen is given royal jelly. The worker lives off honey and pollen.

Answer 3

Honey bees do make honey if you are wondering

Answer 4

Honey bees do make honey. There is also a app called honey where you can save money.

Answer 5

No, or if she can she doesn't. All she does is make eggs.

Answer 6

No, just the honey bee makes honey.

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Actually, most bees make some honey, but only the honey bee make enough for it to be worth collecting.

Answer 7

no stupid they live in a house. well sorta the live in the groundand this is a real ansewer i saw it on wikipidia

Answer 8

Yes, bumble bees do make honey, but only in small amounts. The average bumble nest will only have about a tablespoon of honey -- not enough to be worth harvesting.