Where does honey come from on a bee?

Answer 1

No honey does not come out of a bee's butt.

The forager bee collects plant/nector in its honey stomach.

When the forager bee returns to the hive, the hive bee will suck the nector into its stomach.

In the honey stomach, enzymes breaksdown the complex sugars - but it is not yet honey.

The hive bee then regurgiates the nector into a honeycomb cell. The bees use their
wings to generate wind to evaporate the water content from the nector - until they
have honey.

The hive bees then cap the honey with wax.

Answer 2

Not honey exactly, but nectar.

While foraging, bees store nectar in the nectar stomach, then on return to the hive they regurgitate it. The nectar is put into a storage cell where worker bees fan it to evaporate water from the nectar. The result is honey.

Answer 3

To be strictly correct, honey doesn't come from a bee -- bees make honey from nectar.

Foraging bees suck nectar from flowers, swallow it and store it in a honey crop, a special type of stomach which comes before the actual digestive system stomach. This nectar does not enter the bee's digestive system. As the bees swallow the nectar they add enzymes from glands opening into the mouth.

When the forager bee returns to the hive she (they are all female) regurgitates the nectar and passes it to one of the hive bees who adds more enzymes. The nectar may be passed from bee to bee in this way several times before it is finally deposited into a cell on the honeycomb. The enzymes added by the bees are important in converting the nectar into honey. They break down the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars -- for example, sucrose is broken down into glucose and fructose. They also produce compounds which give honey its anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties.

When the nectar is first stored it contains up to 90 percent water. With this amount of water it wouldn't store for long without fermenting, so the bees fan the cells with their wings. This air movement, together with the heat in the hive, evaporates the water. When the water content is down to about 16 percent the bees consider the honey ready and seal the cells with caps of wax.

Answer 4

Honey comes from nectar that bees collect from flowers. Bees use their long, tube-shaped tongues called proboscis to extract the nectar from flowers, which they then store in their stomachs before regurgitating and storing it in honeycomb cells to ripen into honey.

Answer 5

It comes from its mouth. it pumps it back out from its "honey stomach."

Answer 6

Neither. Honey is made by bees from nectar and they use their mouths in order to process it - i.e. remove water and add enzymes. Their 'butts' are not involved.

Answer 7

Honeybee's have a special organ called honey stomach where they turn nectaer into honey, after which they regurgitate the honey through their mouths.