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They store honey to use as food when the weather is too poor for them to leave the hive to forage for nectar.

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What material does come out of a bees honeycomb?

honey


What is impregnated honeycomb?

In bees, it is a honeycomb that the queen has put an egg in.


Do bees make honey out of their mouths?

No. Honey is made in a honeycomb, out of pollen that bees bring back to the hive on their legs.


What is a cell where honey is stored?

A cell where honey is stored is called a honeycomb cell. Bees store honey in these wax cells within their hives. Honeycomb cells are hexagonal in shape and are perfectly designed to store and protect the honey.


Do you get edible wax?

Yes you can you can purchase jars of honey that has parts of the honeycomb placed in the jar along with the honey and of course the honeycomb is made from bees wax


Why are honey combs hexagon shaped?

this make it easier for the honey to remain in the honeycomb and the bees find it easier to make honey


Why do bees put honey in a honeycomb?

To store it so that the colony of bees can live on it over the winter. That way, the colony is ready to collect nectar as soon as the first flowers come out in spring.


Bees in ground nest are different sizes honey bee size and larger with a honeycomb. what kind of bees are they?

It sounds like the bees you are describing may be bumble bees. Bumble bees can have varying sizes, some larger than honey bees, and they are known to nest in the ground with structures similar to honeycomb. Bumble bees are important pollinators and generally not aggressive unless disturbed.


The honey comb built by bees is made of what substance?

Bees build their honeycomb using beeswax, which is a natural substance secreted from glands on the bees' abdomen. The beeswax is chewed and molded by the bees to create the hexagonal honeycomb structure used for storing honey, pollen, and developing brood.


How do you get honey from bees?

Beekeepers collect honey by carefully extracting the honeycombs from the beehives, removing beeswax caps, and then spinning the combs in a centrifuge to separate honey from beeswax. The honey is then filtered and stored for consumption.


What is the waxy structure constructed by bees in a hive?

The waxy structure constructed by honey bees is called honeycomb. It's a structure of hexagonal cells which the bees build to store pollen and honey, and to house their larvae.


Where bees get born?

Bees are born in a honeycomb within a beehive. The queen bee lays eggs in the honeycomb cells, and the larvae hatch from these eggs. They undergo a transformation process inside the cells before emerging as adult bees.