Seeing a bottle of honey on the table for breakfast is just like an ordinary thing to all of us. Seeing honey is not that new to us and we are used to having it around. But honey certainly hides an extraordinary story. Have you ever thought how this thing is done? Have you ever wonder how bees make honey? Now, I know that I got your attention.
Most of us love honey because of its amazing taste and the benefits that it is giving us. But then again, many of us dont even wonder of how this honey arrives at the breakfast table. We tend to overlook few details and facts about honey. If you are interested in
beekeeping or if you just love eating and using honey then it is certainly a must for you to be aware of how this miracle was done.
A colony is composed of thousand of bees and these bees all have their specific tasks. There is the queen bee, the workers, and the drones. The queens major task is to lay thousand of eggs everyday so that the population of the bees will still continue. Everyday, there are thousand of bees that are dying. The eggs that are laid by the queen will be the one to replace all of the bees that died. The queen will produce eggs all her life and this will last for three to five years. The workers are the bees that have almost all the work inside the colony. They are also the largest when it comes to population. They are the ones who leave the hive and gather food. They usually live for a month. The last type is called the drones. They are the only male bees in the colony and their only task is to mate with the queen in order for her to lay eggs. They have the shortest life span among all the bees.
Now, let us go to how
bees make honey. Making the honey is definitely a process and this will start with the worker bees which are the ones collecting nectars from the flowers. After they collected nectars, they will now return to the hive. You must know that bees have two stomachs and both stomachs are important for them.
During the cold months, the bees will eat the nectar that they stored. Some of the nectars will go to the main stomach and the bee will now use this as a source of their energy. The remaining nectar will now go to the special stomach where the honey is processed. The bees have this enzyme which can convert the sugars within the nectar. This is how bees make honey.
