🐝🍯 How Do Bees Make Honey?🍯🐝

Hi ya bloggers!

Not so long ago we learnt a lot about the process of how bees make honey! After learning about how bees make honey we wrote an explanation text. An Explanation text usually answers a question!

This is my explanation writing about how bees make honey, Enjoy!

 

 Have you ever seen a bee fly by and wondered how bees make that luscious sticky stuff? Well let’s find out the magnificent process of how bees make honey…

 

Firstly the female worker bees search out to find flowers, they might go miles on end to find the right flowers. They usually go in swarms but you can find them just as one or two. After they have found the right flower, they would use their long straw-like tongue called a proboscis to slurp up all the nectar in a flower. It takes up to hundreds of flowers for one bee! After that they are full of nectar and they come back to their hive, to unload it.

 

After they have returned to the hive they regurgitate the nectar into a younger bee’s mouth. When the nectar is in the younger bee’s crop (A bee’s special honey making stomach), enzymes would mix into the nectar, making it more like honey then the younger bee would vomit the nectar into another bee’s mouth. The bees continue this process until plenty of Enzyme has processed through the nectar, making the nectar more like honey! 

 

Finally the bee who holds the nectar would vomit the rest of the honey into a hexagon shaped compartment made from beeswax. When the honey is in the beeswax compartment some more bees would come and help to fan it out, with their wings. As they fan the nectar most of the water would evaporate, making it sticky and gooey. Then the bee would conceal the honey with

Beeswax like a lid, to keep the honey fresh. Did you know that one bee would produce about half a teaspoon in its life!

 

 

After learning about  the long process of how bees make honey, would you still like a bit of bees vomit on your toast?

And that was it, did you like it?

What was your favourite part?

See ya later blogger’s!

Tobin (Rm21)

 

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