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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.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 10y agoInside their stomach. They drink it at the flower, and then regurgitate it in the nest, to let water evaporate from the nectar and turn it into the much thicker honey. Then, they store it in the rates for later consumption.
Pollen is carried home on the legs, but that is used to feed the larvae and has no role in the formation of honey.
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∙ 8y agoBees use their proboscis to take up nectar, which is its mouth, but in bees the mouth parts have been modified to form the tube. Nectar is stored in the stomach and taken back to the hive to make honey.
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∙ 10y agoNectar is ingested (eaten) and taken back to the hive in the bee's stomach. Back there it's regurgitated, water is allowed to evaporate out, and the thicker product is stored in the rate. So honey is basically bee vomit!
If you were thinking of pollen (yellow powder), that's taken back attached to the bee's legs and fed to the larvae. That's not an ingredient of honey.
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∙ 12y agoIn a special stomach just for that purpose.
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∙ 6y agoBees do not carry honey, which stays in the hive, since they carry nectar to the hive to be made into honey.
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What sugary liquid do bees get from flowers?
The sweet fluid produced by plants and collected by bees is known as nectar.
How do bees find nectar?
They are attracted to nectar-bearing flowers by scent and the colours of the petals.
What do killer bees eat?
So-called killer bees, more properly called Africanized honey bees, eat the same as any other honey bee: pollen and nectar.
What do carpenter bees eat?
Nectar.
How do you get honey from bees?
Bees collect nectar from flowers and store it in special honey stomachs. They return to the hive and regurgitate the nectar into the honeycomb. Beekeepers remove the honey from the honeycomb.
What is carried from flowers by bees?
Bees carry pollen from the stigma and the stamen, and also nectar.
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.
How do honey bees carry nectar?
Honey bees carry pollen and nectar in two ways. The most common way is by the hairs on their legs and stomach which pollen sticks to. Some bees also have hollow areas on their legs which can carry food as well.
Do Bees use flower nectar for food and distribute pollen allowing the plant to reproduce?
Yes, but bees also carry pollen and nectar back to their hive. The pollen is used as a source of protein for their larvae. The nectar is processed into honey.
How do bees ferry water back to the hive?
They carry it in the honey crop, in the same way as nectar. They won't forage for nectar and water on the same trip.
Do bees get nectar from plants?
Yes, bees collect nectar from flowers of the plants
Do bees tap flowers for pollen?
No. Bees tap flowers for nectar and inadvertantly carry pollen between flowers and therefore cross pollinate the flowers.
What do bees use nectar for?
Male bees use nectar for food. Female bees use pollen for feeding the larvae, and nectar and pollen for own food.
What is the liquid bees gather?
nectar (Bees gather nectar from flowers and turn it into honey.)
What sugary liquid do bees get from flowers?
The sweet fluid produced by plants and collected by bees is known as nectar.
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.
What do bees eat beside nectar and honey?
Bees eat pollen as well as nectar and honey.
