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Yes, nectar makes honey. Bees sip nectar while accidentally or intentionally collecting floral pollen grains. They therefore use the nectar as an immediately energizing drink but also subsequently as drinks to be regurgitated for other colony members and as fluids to be mixed with digestive enzymes to make honey.
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∙ 11y agoThe worker bees collect nectar from various sources, usually flowers. Nectar is mainly a disaccharide sugar dissolved in water. Nectar is collected by the worker bee, using her mouthparts like a straw. The nectar goes into a special honey crop, sometimes called a honey stomach, within the bee's body. A few things are added to the nectar as it is converted in the bee's honey crop to a monosaccharide sugar in water (digestion). When the worker bee gets back to the hive, she deposits her digested nectar into one of the cells in the honeycomb. As several cells start to fill, other worker bees start flapping their wings very rapidly over the top of the cells containing the nectar. Over time this dehydrates (removes the water from) the nectar. The nectar is dehydrated to varying amounts, depending upon the plant type the bees are working, and the amount of sugar the nectar contains, but usually by a factor of 8-10 (give or take), meaning about10 parts water is removed, leaving about 1 part digested nectar. The resulting dehydrated product is now honey, which is usually caped or sealed by the bees for storage. Honey usually contains just enough water to keep it from crystalizing, but not so much water so that it ferments or spoils. Perfect for long-term storage in the hive.
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∙ 14y agoNo. Only birds, butterflies and bee's can.
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∙ 7y agoYes
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How do bees make nectar into honey?
It doesn't. Bees make honey from nectar. Pollen is used to feed the bee larvae.
What do bees make into honey?
Nectar
How do honey bees make the honey sweet?
Bees make the honey from nectar which is already sweet.
How do bees make honey from nectar?
They have a secrete enzyme in there mouth that when they they collect nectar and mix it with the enzyme it makes honey.
Do honey bees eat mud?
Honey bees do not eat mud. They eat nectar and pollen from flowers, as well as the honey that they make from nectar.
Why do bees gather nectar?
To make honey.
How do honey bees get honey?
Honey bees get honey by sucking nectar out of plants. In the hive, this nectar is converted to honey. Different bees make different honey, so as you can imagine, there are a lot of different kinds of honey.
How do you make a sentence with the word nectar?
The flower's sweet nectar attracts bees to pollinate it. Bees gather nectar and make it into honey.
Are honey bees made out of honey?
They are called honey bees because they collect nectar to make honey.
Can you attract wild honey bees to collect honey?
No they make honey. They collect nectar and pollen.
How much nectar to make 1 gram honey?
The amount of nectar to produce 1 gram of honey is equivalent to the total amount of nectar collected by bees from about 4000 flowers.
Is honey found in bees or flowers?
Bees make honey using nectar from flowers
