how honeybees produce honey full processes
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- Honey starts as flower nectar collected by bees, which gets broken down into simple sugars stored inside the honeycomb.
- The design of the honeycomb and constant fanning of the bees' wings causes evaporation, creating sweet liquid honey.
- Honey's colour and flavour varies based on the nectar collected by the bees.
- Invertase, amylase, and diastase act with gastric acid to hydrolyze sucrose into a mixture of fructose and glucose.
- The process takes as long as 30 minutes, and the bees work together regurgitating and digesting and then depositing the honey at approximately 20% moisture into the honeycomb cells.
- House bees take the nectar inside the colony and pack it away in hexagon-shaped beeswax honey cells.
- They then turn the nectar into honey by drying it out using a warm breeze made with their wings. Once the honey has dried out, they put a lid over the honey cell using fresh beeswax – kind of like a little honey jar
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