Why bees make honey?

Bees have been regarded as a symbol of hard work since ancient times, and they are also well known for their ability to brew honey. Almost immediately, honey can be thought of when it comes to bees. Artificial bees are mainly cultivated to obtain honey. But little is known about making honey, let’s take a look at what honey is made by bees!

1, the purpose of honey bees

The purpose of honey production by bees is to talk about their food habits. In fact, bees are insects that feed entirely on pollen and nectar, but most plants have a clear periodicity in flowering time, and they are not always available at all times. Nest to collect honey,Under long-term natural selection, bees have evolved the instinct of storing food. In short, when honey sources are abundant, bees collect a large amount of nectar and make honey. When the honey source is scarce or cannot be collected from the nest, they use the stored honey as food.

2, Reasons for bees to collect honey

The purpose of honey for bees is to store food. Why don’t bees directly make nectar and make honey? The reason is that the concentration of honey is much higher than that of nectar, But expanding the hive to save nectar is not worth the cost. In addition, the shelf life of nectar is not comparable to honey. In fact, natural mature honey can almost never be degraded. Therefore, making nectar into honey is the best solution for bees to store nectar.

3, the process of bees collecting honey

The process by which bees make nectar into honey is extremely complicated. In fact, the process of collecting nectar during the collection of bees has begun. After collecting the bees and returning to the nest, the bees are returned to the field bees to continue brewing. At the same time, sucrose also accelerates evaporation of water, After the sucrose conversion is basically completed and the water has evaporated, the back ground bees store the nectar in the nest, and after the honey is fully brewed, the back ground beeswax secretes the beeswax.

Summary: Honey is made by bees to store food in case of need. Since the volume of honey is much smaller than nectar under the same nutritional content, and the shelf life of honey is much larger than nectar, so bees will make nectar into honey before storing. In the hive.