The bee is a marvelous flying machine. She can carry a
payload of nectar or pollen close to her own weight.
Consider that even the most advanced design in aircraft
can only take off with a load one-quarter of its own weight
and you'll appreciate the miracle that the honeybee can
remain airborne with such a load.
When her nectar "sacs" are full, the honeybee returns to
the hive. Nectar is delivered to one of the indoor bees and
is then passed mouth-to-mouth from bee to bee until its
moisture content is reduced from about 70% to 20%. This
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How Bees Make Honey
It has been said that except for man, nowhere in the world is there anything to compare with the incredible efficiency of the industry of the honeybee. Inside the beehive each bee has a special job to do and the whole process runs smoothly.
Bees need two different kinds of food. One is honey made from nectar, the sugary juice that collects in the heart of the flowers. The other comes from the anthers of flowers, which contain numerous small grains called pollen. Just as flowers have different colours, so do their pollen.
Let us go with the honeybee from her flower to the hive and see what happens. Most bees gather only pollen or nectar. As she sucks the nectar from the flower, it is stored in her special honey stomach ready to be transferred to the honey-making bees in the hive. If hungry she opens a valve in the nectar “sac” and a portion of the payload passes through to her own stomach to be converted to energy for her own needs.
The bee is a marvelous flying machine. She can carry a payload of nectar or pollen close to her own weight. Consider that even the most advanced design in aircraft can only take off with a load one-quarter of its own weight and you’ll appreciate the miracle that the honeybee can remain airborne with such a load.