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Bees collect nectar from flowers. Since one flower has very little nectar, a bee needs to go from flower to flower collecting a little nectar in each blossom.
Bees neither notice nor care about pollen, but when they dive into a flower to collect nectar, they are also brushing against the stamens and pistils of the bloom, tracking pollen from blossom to blossom. Stamens and pistils are the sex organs of plants, and pollen is the way plants fertilize each other.
So without bees to carry pollen around to the flowers, the flowers wouldn't get fertilized, the plants wouldn't set any fruit, and we'd all starve to death. (and eventually, the plants wouldn't reproduce either.) Well, that's an exaggeration; the wind can also blow pollen from flower to flower, but that's much less efficient than when bees to it.
What else can I help you with?
Is a butterfly a consumer or producer?
A butterfly is a primary consumer. Butterflies mainly consume nectar and liquids. No butterfly eats, they all live on a liquid diet.
What is nectar and ambrosia?
Nectar is the drink and ambrosia is the food of the Greek gods. If a mortal got a hold of it, it made them immortal. Or, in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, it would "turn your blood to fire and your bones to sand". Nectar was also used to clean wounds in mythology.
If the seminal vesciles stopped working What would happen to the sperm?
If the seminal vesicles stopped working, sperm would have reduced seminal fluid for nourishment and protection. This can impair sperm motility and survival, potentially affecting fertility and the ability to successfully fertilize an egg.
What would happen if ribosomes suddenly stopped working in a cell?
If ribosomes suddenly stopped working in a cell, protein synthesis would be disrupted, leading to a decrease in the production of essential proteins. This could result in cell dysfunction, impaired growth, and ultimately cell death.
What effect would insulin receptors have on blood sugar if they stopped working?
If insulin receptors stopped working, the cells would not be able to take in glucose from the bloodstream effectively. As a result, blood sugar levels would increase because the body would not be able to properly regulate glucose uptake. This could lead to high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia) and potentially result in symptoms associated with diabetes.
How do you make wine out of flower nectar?
I think collecting enough nectar to make wine would be a very long and difficult job. On the other hand you could let the bees collect nectar for you and turn it into honey, then turn the honey into wine -- more properly called mead.
Can honey be made without bees?
You could collect nectar and evaporate most of the water from it and you would have something not unlike honey, but you would be missing one important stage. When bees initially swallow the nectar it includes a little of their saliva, the enzymes in which break the more complex sugars in nectar down to glucose and fructose, so your 'concentrated nectar' would not be the same as true honey.
Bees Stop making honey?
Bees make honey from nectar gathered from flowers. If there are no nectar-bearing flowers available, then the bees can't make honey. Nor will there be any nectar to feed on, so they will feed on their stored honey.
What does the flowers benefit the honey bees on?
The flowers carry nectar, so when the bees collect the nectar they eat it. That helps produce the honey. The nectar in the flowers is the bees food source. Without flowers, the bees would all die out.
Are there any differences in honey from wild honey bees compared to domestic honey bees?
Bees, be they wild or domestic, produce honey in the same manor. Nectar is gathered, returned to hive, deposited in the comb, water is evaporated and the comb is sealed. The difference is the source of the nectar. Bee keepers will provide their hives for pollination and will label the honey based on the crop being pollinated. For example: If a hive is intended to pollinate an orange grove the honey would be marketted as orange blossom honey and would have citrus notes as expected. Wild hives will gather nectar from nearby flowers. So the honey may be comprised of a more diverse supply of nectar. This will create a more complex flavor.
Why Honeybees make honey?
Honey bees eat nectar and pollen. They can store pollen in the comb, but if they tried to store nectar it wouldn't keep and would soon start to ferment. They have evolved methods to convert the nectar into honey. This serves two purposes: it keeps well, and it takes less space because they have evaporated surplus water from it. The honey is kept for food when nectar is not available, such as during the winter. This is particularly necessary because honey bees don't hibernate but remain active during the winter.
Do bees die in the process of making honey?
insects like bees use the nectar from flowers to produce their honey. The nectar is what you would say is the same as tree sap.
Why do bees collect pollen?
Bees collect nectar for food. Because raw nectar would not store for very long without fermenting, bee convert the surplus of nectar they collect into honey to use as food when nectar is not available. It is this surplus honey that we collect. Beekeepers then replace the honey with sugar syrup which, for the bees, is just as good.
What do honey bees use to make honey?
I would explain it in a simple way: Honey bees collect pollen and nectar in the spring when most flowers and plants are in bloom. They use their long, tubelike tongues like straws (called proboscis) to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their stomachs and carry it to the beehive. While inside the bee's stomach for about half an hour, the nectar mixes with the proteins and enzymesproduced by the bees, converting the nectar into honey. The bees then drop the honey into thebeeswaxcomb, which are hexagonal cells made of wax produced by the bees, and repeat the process until the combs are full. To prepare for long-term storage, the bees fan their wings to evaporate and thicken the honey (note: nectar is 80% water and honey is about 14-18% water). When this is done, the bees cap thehoneycombwith wax and move on to the next empty comb, starting all over again. So, in a nutshell, the honey we eat is flower nectar thathoney beeshave collected, regurgitated and dehydrated to enhance its nutritional properties.
Does it take four bee loads of nectar to make one drop of honey?
Although a bee's honey crop can hold up to 100 milligrams (mg) of nectar, they usually return to the hive with about 40 mg, so four loads would be about 160 mg. However, it doesn't end there. Nectar is between 80 and 90 per cent water. As the bees convert the nectar to honey, most of this water is evaporated off until the honey is down to about 16 per cent water so from the original 160 mg, over 100 mg of water is removed.The four bee loads of nectar is now down to around 50 milligrams. The relative density of honey is about 1.4, so a 5ml teaspoon will hold around 7 grams of honey, which is 140 lots of 50 mg. I'll leave it to you to work out whether you can get 140 drops of honey into a teaspoon.
Why do bees make honey and do they eat it?
Bees don't hibernate, but if the weather is too cold they can't fly out of the hive - and in winter there would probably be no flowers anyway. So, they collect a surplus of food when there is plenty available and store it for the winter. Honey can best be described as concentrated nectar.
How many kilometers' of flying would it entail for one bee to produce 1kg of honey?
In its lifetime, a honey bee only collects enough nectar to make about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. In order to collect one kilo of honey the bees would have had to have flown the equivalent of nearly 200,000 kilometres while foraging.
