How do bees collect honey to make honey? What is its life cycle?

Due to the unique body structure of the bee, its lips are bitten to assist the bee to suck the fragrance from the flower core, and at the same time, the bee will continue to use its feet to collect pollen, because the tarsal joints of the feet are relatively large, and there is also a concave groove on both sides, and the perimeter is covered with long, dense plush, which looks like a "pollen basket" from the outside.

As the bees weave back and forth among the flowers to collect, the "pollen basket" on the back and the long, dense plush will be covered with pollen. The pollen is then brushed off by a "pollen brush" on the tarsal joints to collect in a "pollen basket", and in order to prevent the pollen from being gently blown off by the wind during the voyage, the bees will use the nectar to fix the pollen in a hemispherical shape and then bring it to the honeycomb.

After successfully collecting the nectar, the bees do not fill all the burrows, but instead disperse the nectar into each hive and disperse it as much as possible to expand the total area of evaporation. It is worth mentioning that in the process of making honey, there are bees in the honeycomb who are professionally responsible for drying the nectar, and they use their wings to disperse the cold of the flattened honey and evaporate the water in the honey. 18%-20% of water can be removed in one afternoon.

The bees with a strong swarm have more team members and have a stronger evaporation solution function.

This step of honey fermentation and the previous evaporation solution is carried out at the same time, brewing and fermentation is mainly to make the sugar in the nectar produce chemical property change, in short, in the case of collecting nectar, into the bee bite mouthparts of the sucking, it has already metabolized a part of the invertase and pepsin, and infiltrated into the nectar, and the nectar brought to the honeycomb is sucked into the honey by the field bee in the hive again, and spit out again after a period of time, and then the second bee carries out the same throughput solution. In this process, the bees continue to add invertase to make it mix and ferment, and the original sugar content in the nectar is turned into monosaccharides, and the nectar slowly becomes thick honey.

When the moisture in the nectar is reduced to a certain level, the unnecessary water is removed, and the honey is continuously fermented, and then the perfect honey is collected by the field bees, and then the liquid paraffin is metabolized to cover the honeycomb to store the perfect honey (food crop) for a long time; When external sources are scarce, this perfect honey is the food crop for bees to survive. Perfect honey is very beneficial for bees to digest thoroughly. In the natural environment of artificial breeding, beekeepers can put this kind of bee spleen full of perfect honey in a clear way, remove the seal that seals the mouth of the hive, and put a whole piece of bee spleen into the honey shaker to extract honey.

This is the whole process of bee honey making.

Reminder: The nectar collected by bees varies depending on the greenery, season, climate, evaporation time, etc., and the moisture content is also slightly different. There are two key levels of honey fermentation in bees:

First, it is fragrant and tender to remove moisture, concentrated to about 20% of the moisture content for long-term storage; The second is to carry out organic chemical solutions to convert sugar content into monosaccharides (cotton white sugar into glucose and glucose).

For forty to fifty days, the bees spit out the sweet juice of the flowers they had gathered into an empty hive, and at night, they sucked the sweet juice into their stomachs to prepare it, then spit it out, and then swallowed it again, and so on and so forth, 100 240 times, before finally making sweet honey.

Bees collect the nectar secreted by the flowers into their bodies and transport them back to their hives. The life cycle of bees is about a month, and they don't live long.

There is a clear division of labor among bees, there are worker bees who go out to collect pollen, and there are worker bees who specialize in making honey in the nest, worker bees can generally live for 1 to 2 months, and queen bees can generally live for about five years.

When a bee collects honey, it sucks the honey into its honey sac through a long, soft, knobby, hairy snout with a lip flap at the tip.

The honey sac is like a retractable balloon, a temporary storehouse for honey. The volume of the honey sac is usually only 13 16mm3, and it can be expanded by 5 6 times after absorbing the honey.

When the nectar is sucked into the honey sac by the bees, it is mixed with the secretion of the upper jaw gland, invertase, and the conversion of sucrose begins from there, and the honey is repeatedly brewed and the water is evaporated by constant fanning, and the transformation and concentration are accelerated until the honey is fully mature.

Depending on the species, the number of worker bees generally ranges from 12 to more than 50,000, and they collect nectar and pollen, and in the case of bees, they also transmit nectar and pollen to specific places, which are obtained by performing special and strict dances.

After filling the honey sac, the bees fly back to their hives and spit out the honey to the bees, who then process and brew them. Whether it is nectar, honeydew or nectar, the honey collected by bees needs to be fully processed and brewed before it can be transformed into mature honey.

The honey production process of bees is as follows:

1. Chemical changes in sugar: bees spit out the enzymes in their own saliva and mix them with the nectar to produce a hydrolysis reaction that turns the disaccharides of the nectar into monosaccharides, that is, the sucrose in the nectar is hydrolyzed into glucose and fructose.

2. Physical change: through evaporation, the average content of water is reduced from 60% to 65% to 7% to 25%.

After the worker bee returns to the nest, the honey is spit out to the internal bee to continue processing, and the internal bee mixes the secretion invertase into the nectar in the processing, and some bees in the box strengthen the fan, evaporate the water, and promote the honey to be concentrated quickly, and finally the half honey is stored in the nest, through the continuous secretion of invertase and fan work, when the honey is mature and stored in the nest, the bee then seals the honey room with wax, which completes the whole process of honey production by the bee.

Bees collect honey first.

The search for the source of honey begins. In a large number of workers.

Before the bai bee goes out to collect du, it is always the first time that a few zhi "scout dao bees" go out to find it. When the "scout bee" has discovered the source of the flowering nectar, it descends into the flower bush and uses its tube-like mouthparts (beak) to suck the nectar into the honey sac (stomach).

When the harvesting bees return to the nest with a full load, they will spit out the nectar from the honey sac to the staff bees mouth-to-mouth as if passing the baton in a relay race, or temporarily stay in the empty nest room, and then immediately go out for a second collection.

Collecting honey is the instinct of bees. As soon as the weather is right, the scout bees will go out in search of nectar sources and then signal to gather their companions. When collecting nectar, bees land on the flower tray and insert their mouthparts along the base of the stamens to suck the nectar.

They collect honey layer by layer from the outside in. Bees put the nectar they suck into their honey sacs.

Honey uses his mouthparts to extract nectar from the flowers and put it in the hive, where the bee picker mixes the bee saliva with biological enzymes and ferments it to make honey.

The flowers collected by bees are generally in full bloom, because the pollen content is relatively sufficient at this time, and the bees penetrate deep into the flowers through their mouthparts, and their feet can be used to collect pollen. Brewing, on the other hand, requires storing nectar in one's stomach and undergoing a variety of transformations to produce nectar.

To collect honey, bees first select high-quality flowers, then pick the stamens from the flowers, and then they fly back to their hives and slowly brew the honey.

The worker bees first concentrate the pollen they have collected for the day into an empty chamber, and at night, the worker bees will swallow the pollen into their stomachs, then spit it out, and swallow it again, and so on to make the pollen into honey.

A bee can only produce one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime, and every drop of honey is hard to come by for a small bee.

How do bees make honey? Star Awareness Project

Honey is the nectar or secretion of plants collected by bees and brewed thoroughly, while there is no specific number of honey that bees can collect in their lifetime, and there will be certain individual differences.

There are very few bees that can collect honey during their lifetime, but the number of bee breeding birds is very large, and there are many of them gathered together.

Bees collect honey an average of 10 times a day during the honey flow period, with an average of half their body weight each time. The lifespan of worker bees is 30 to 40 days, so a bee can only provide grams of honey in its lifetime. The lifespan of bees varies from species to species.

In winter, the life span of worker bees is about 3 months, the life span of drones is about 3 months, and the life span of queen bees can reach 4-5 years. The process of making honey includes searching for nectar**, collecting nectar, brewing honey and storing honey.

A bee can only provide grams of honey in its lifetime, and the life of honey is relatively short, so the time to collect honey will be shorter.