Honey is one of the most pure substances that we constantly crave. “Lawyers, Guns, & Honey” explains that honey is and has always been in constant demand because it is natural and many food industries put honey in foods in exchange of sugar. Many of us believe that honey is better for our bodies than sugar is; but “Honey or Sugar” states that honey is actually contains three different types of sugar! But do really care when honey tastes so good? I know I don’t. Honey may not the healthiest thing for us but it is still all natural. How do bees make it taste so good? The process is kind of disgusting to think about, but the taste of honey is just too good to shy away from. Worker bees which are female go out to collect nectar from flowers then the bee will consume it into their stomach called “honey gut”. According to “Lawyers, Guns, & Honey”, bees add enzymes to the nectar that they had consumed and once they get to the hive they spit up the nectar and pass it off the to other bees. Those bees will do the same thing adding a little more enzymes and hand it off the another bee. The nectar typically gets passed around 3 times until the last bee stores it into a cell. Once the nectar is placed in a cell other worker bees fan the nectar and dehydrate it. This causes the nectar to harden to a thick syrup, known as honey. Workers It’s pretty common sense that the queen bee is female but what you may not have realized is that worker bees are also female. Drones are the males of the honey bees, and they do nothing when it comes to the colony. Worker bees do it all. And they are have a lot of work to do when summer comes. Unfortunately, the Bee Movie may have lend you to believe that worker bees are males but that is not true. Drones have no responsibility when it comes to the hive. The queen also has no control over what the worker bees do. The worker bees don’t have the same job when they leave their cell and when they die. Honey bees don’t live very long. According to “Colony And It’s Organization”, worker bees only live for about 6 weeks in the summer. In that time worker bees clean the cells, feed the young, care for the queen, remove debris, etc. Their jobs change by how old they are. By a certain age, worker bees will become known as field bees. Field bees adventure outside of the hive to collect pollen and nectar. A field bee typically lives up to 40 days in this last stage of its life.
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Huda Aldadah
3/12/2018 07:00:50 am
My mom loves honey and believes it the solution to all of our health problems (she loves natural remedies). I do love honey though and its interesting to know the process that goes into making it. I also didn't know that there are 3 types of sugar in bees. Whenever I have a tournament, I eat honey because it makes me so energized, I guess it's because of all the sugar in it! I also love the aesthetic of this blog!
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megan verheyen
3/17/2018 07:27:47 pm
I really enjoyed reading about your take on bees and honey. To be honest I have never known much about bees so reading your blog was eye opening. I really like how you included information about the worker bees and their roles in their beehives. It gives me a whole new view.
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