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Anonymous users2024-02-121. Nectar collection
The mouthparts of bees belong to the chewing mouthparts, which can absorb the nectar from the flowers, and collect pollen with their feet while absorbing the nectar juice, and the tarsal joints of the hind feet are particularly enlarged, with a groove on the outside, and long and dense hairs grow around it, forming a "pollen basket".
When the bees shuttle back and forth among the flowers to collect pollen and nectar, the hairy feet are covered with pollen, and then the pollen is combed off by the "pollen comb" on the tarsal joints of the hind feet, collected in the "pollen basket", and finally the pollen is fixed into a ball with honey and brought back to the honeycomb.
2. Physical processing
The honey collected by the bees back into the hive is not directly filled with the entire hive, but the honey is scattered and stored in many hives to increase the evaporation area of the honey, and during this period of time, there are bees in the hive who are responsible for fanning the wind, fanning the honey with small wings, and gradually fanning off the water in the nectar, the moisture in the nectar can be reduced by about 18% overnight, and some good bee colonies can fan dry up the water in one night.
3. Sugar conversion
The chemical process and physical process of bee honey production are carried out at the same time, this process is mainly to change the sugar content in the nectar, in fact, when collecting the nectar, some invertase and amylase have been secreted into the nectar, and the collected nectar is re-inhaled into the honey sac by the bee.
After a period of time, it is spit out, and then swallowed by another bee in the same way as before, in this process, the bee continuously adds invertase to it and mixes it, so that some of the polysaccharides in the original nectar are directly converted into monosaccharides.
4. Honey storage
When the moisture in the nectar is reduced to about 18%, such honey is called mature honey, and the bees gather the mature honey and then cover the hive with beeswax to preserve their food for consumption when there is no nectar source in the outside world. At this time, the beekeeper can extract the honey spleen that has been brewed, cut off the cap that seals the nest mouth, put the whole bee spleen into the honey shaker and shake it, and shake the honey out by centrifugal force.
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Anonymous users2024-02-11Honey brewing process: 1. When making honey, the curved part of the beak end is gradually opened, and a small drop of nectar appears in the anterior cavity of the mouth.
2. With the continuous increase of the opening angle, the honey beads also continue to increase.
3. The honey bead increases to a certain limit, a concave surface is formed below it, the shape of the honey bead disappears, and the end of the beak is still in a resting state. It took 5 10 s to complete this series of actions at one time. This process is repeated and lasts for about 20 minutes.
In this process, on the one hand, more invertase is added to the honey beads, which accelerates the conversion of sucrose; On the other hand, the evaporation surface of the honey beads expands, which accelerates the evaporation of water. In addition, some bees strengthen the fan to remove moisture from the nest, so that the honey juice is concentrated quickly. At the end of the brewing process, the honey-brewing bees temporarily store the honey in the nest.
The sucrose conversion and honey concentration process continues. When the honey is ripe, the worker bees gradually transfer it to concentrate it in the upper part of the egg circle or in the nest on the side of the spleen, and seal it with wax. When the honey is fast and the honey is thin, the bees do not necessarily brew it immediately, but often divide the honey into small droplets and hang them on the upper walls of several nests, so that the honey increases the surface area and accelerates the evaporation of water, and then collects it later and brews it repeatedly.
The maturation process of honey takes 5-7 days.
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Anonymous users2024-02-10Bees making honey is a group act that requires multiple steps to complete. Here's how bees make honey in general:
1.Collect nectar. Worker bees collect nectar from flowers and store them using a special storage organ, the honey stomach.
2.Spit honey. Worker bees spit stored nectar into the mouths of other worker bees for relay, which begins to transform into honey.
3.Processing and storage. The worker bees that receive the nectar will gradually process the nectar into honey by chewing and heating it, and store it in a hive cabinet in the hive.
4.Dry and seal. Worker bees also use the wind generated by their wings to volatilize and dry the moisture on the surface of the honey, and then bury the hive cabinet with beeswax to maintain the temperature and humidity inside the hive and prevent the honey from spoiling.
5.Harvest. When the honey is fully ripe, the beekeeper opens the hive, harvests the honey, and processes and packages it.
It should be noted that the composition of nectar of different types of plants is different, so the honey produced will also be different. In addition, bees also need reasonable environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity and ventilation to ensure the quality and taste of honey.
The bees first spit out the sweet juice of the flowers they had picked into an empty hive, and at night, they sucked the sweet juice into their own stomach and prepared it, then spit it out and swallowed it again, and so on and so forth, 100 240 times, before finally making sweet honey.
Every worker bee.
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