How do bees turn pollen into honey?

Honeybees use nectar to make honey. Nectar is almost 80% water with some complex sugars. In fact, if you have ever pulled a honeysuckle blossom out of its stem, nectar is the clear liquid that drops from the end of the blossom. In North America, bees get nectar from flowers like clovers, dandelions, berry bushes and fruit tree blossoms. They use their long, tubelike tongues like straws to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their "honey stomachs". Bees actually have two stomachs, their honey stomach which they use like a nectar backpack and their regular stomach. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honeystomachs.





The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees. These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee's stomach through their mouths. These "house bees" "chew" the nectar for about half an hour. During this time, enzymes are breaking the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars so that it is both more digestible for the bees and less likely to be attacked by bacteria while it is stored within the hive. The bees then spread the nectar throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it, making it a thicker syrup. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings. Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the cell of the honeycomb with a plug of wax. The honey is stored until it is eaten. In one year, a colony of bees eats between 120 and 200 pounds of honey.

How do bees turn pollen into honey?
They mix it with their own spit
Reply:No! A common misconception.


And ants dont made chutney and ladybirds dont make marmalade.


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Reply:with magic
Reply:by a unknown formula
Reply:it clicks its heels together 3 times and says in its wee bee voice "theres no place like home"
Reply:They don't.


They turn nectar from flowers into honey by partially digesting it, then regurgitating it.





The pollen-carrying thing is accidental.
Reply:pollen is bee currency and they go down the local bee co-op and exchange it for honey
Reply:I believe they digest it, and then regurgitate it back up. Seriously—honey is bee vomit.
Reply:Honeybees use nectar to produce honey. Nectar is a clear liquid that is found in flowers - it is made up mainly of water and the rest is sugar. They suck the nectar out of the flowers and store it in a their honey stomach (bees actually have 2 stomachs).





The bees then return to the hive and pass the nectar onto worker bees. The worker bees chew the nectar for about half an hour allowing enzymes to break down the complex sugars. They then spread the nectar over the honeycomb where it evapourates and becomes thicker and is called honey!
Reply:The bees make honey from nectar (sugar solution) not pollen. The flowers generate the nectar to attract bees to them, pollen gets attached to the bee when it is collecting nectar and then it delivers the pollen to another flower. This is how floers reproduce.


This is info on honey I found by a google search.


Honey is a sweet, thick sugary solution made by bees. The composition of honey consists of varying proportions of fructose, glucose, water, oil and special enzymes produced by bees. (Glucose and fructose are types of suger)





The first step in making honey begins when field bees fly from flower to flower collecting the sweet juices or nectar that a flower provides. With their tongues, the field bees suck out the nectar and store it in sacs within their bodies. After filling their sacs with these sweet juices, the field bees fly back to their bee hive and regurgitate the stored nectar into the mouths of house bees.





These house bees are assigned the job of adding enzymes from their bodies to the nectar. The enzymes cause the water in the nectar to evaporate-thereby turning the nectar into honey. Lastly, the nectar is stored in a cell of a honeycomb. Overtime, the nectar ripens and becomes honey.





The buzz on honey...





* Honey is one of the easiest foods to digest.


* Honey is used in many cough syrups because its smooth, thick texture soothes throats.


* As a result of honey's unique ability to readily absorb air, it is often used as a moistening agent in baking.


* Honey comes in all types of colors and flavors. The color and flavor of honey depends on the how old the honey is and the kind of flower that the nectar was extracted from.