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A storage room for nectar is what the honey stomach of a bee is.

Specifically, the term is synonymous with crop and honey sac. It represents one of two stomachs on the honeybee (Apisspp). It will hold almost the bee's weight - 70+ milligrams/0.00246917734 ounces - in the collected nectar from the blossoms and flowers on berry bushes, clovers, dandelions and fruit trees.

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Is honey bees faeces?

NO! Honey is made from nectar which is collected from flowers. It has been stored in a special nectar stomach, then regurgitated back at the hive. It has not passed through the bee's gut.


Did you know that honey is actually bee's vomit?

Well, technically, yes, but barf is when your stomach cannot handle what's in there. It's REALLY called regurgitation because barfing is an unwilling act, while regurgitation is a forced act on the body. Honey is just the regurgitation from a bee, so it isn't bee's barf, but bee's regurgitation.----And, strictly speaking, nectar is carried in the bee's honey crop, which is not part of the digestive tract, so it is not being regurgitated from the stomach -- so is not barf.


How do honey bees gather and carry home rector?

Honey bees gather nectar by visiting flowers and consuming it using their proboscis. Once their honey stomach is filled, they carry the nectar back to the hive in a special pouch located inside their bodies called the honey stomach or crop.


What is the binomial nomiclature for a honey bee?

Apis mellifera mellifera -- Western/European honey beeApis mellifera cerana -- Oriental honey beeApis mellifera ligustica -- Italian honey beeApis mellifera iberiensis -- Spanish honey beeApis mellifera scutellata -- African honey bee


Which spices of honey bees give the best products?

Research has shown that the highest production figures come from a bee that is a cross between the European honey bee (apis mellifera mellifera) and the African honey bee (apis mellifera scutella). However that cross produces what has become known as the 'killer' bee, because they are less docile and more likely to sting. On balance, this disadvantage outweighs any production advantage so beekeepers tend to use the pure European honey bee.

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What is a honey crop?

The honey crop, or honey stomach, is a sac between the bee's oesophagus and its stomach. It is used for carrying nectar, water or honey. Nectar that is to be used for making honey does not go past the honey crop, so never actually enters the bee's digestive stomach.


Where is the honey sac located on a bee?

The pollen basket of a honey bee is located on the tibia and first tarsal segment of their hind legs.


Why do bees have honey stomachs?

A bee uses its honey stomach to add various enzymes to the nectar that it has collected from flowers and turn it into honey.


How many stomach does a bee have?

A bee has one digestive stomach and a crop, sometimes called the honey stomach. The crop is where nectar is stored while it is being taken back to the hive and is not strictly a part of the digestive system as no digestion occurs in it.


What is Wisconsin state insect?

the honey bee


What do bees excrete as feces?

Technically honey. The nectar is stored in an organ called the "honey stomach" which is part of the bee's esophagus. But the honey stomach, which is also known as the honey sac, crop, or ingluvies-is a specialised organ designed to expand and store nectar until it can be ferried back to the hive. Once the foraging bee returns home she regurgitates the contents of the honey stomach and, through the process of trophallaxis, transfers it to a house bee. The house bee will begin to process the nectar into honey. Honey bees also have an organ for digestion called the ventriculus also called the mid-gut. The mid-gut occurs after the honey stomach and is separated from it by the proventriculus which is a muscular organ that regulates the opening between these two parts of the alimentary canal. Further down the line are the intestines, rectum, and anus.


Is honey bees faeces?

NO! Honey is made from nectar which is collected from flowers. It has been stored in a special nectar stomach, then regurgitated back at the hive. It has not passed through the bee's gut.


Where do bees carry nectar?

A honey bee has a 'honey stomach'. This is separate from and in front of its digestive stomach and is used only for storing nectar. In order to fill the honey stomach the bee will visit anything up to 1,500 flowers, and the weight of the collected nectar will weigh almost as much as the bee itself.


What is the western honey bee related to?

a normal honey bee a bee


What is the common name of the Killer Bee?

The Africanized honey bee. Euorpean honey bees were breed with African honey bees, creating a hybrid bee known as the Africanized honey bee, or killer bee.


Use in honey-bee in sentence?

I hope that that bee is not an Africanized honey bee.


What is the honey bees common name?

Honey bee IS the common name of the honey bee. The scientific name of the western honey bee is Apis Mellifera.