The Gross Way Bees Make Honey 🐝

Morning Busy Bees!

See this honey?

Looks delicious right? 

Well, what if I told you that the way bees make this stuff is like… SUPER GROSS!

Lemme tell ya.

So say you’re this bee guy right here:

And you wanna make some honey, How do you do it?

Well, first you need a flower.

Then you gotta whip out your long bee tongue and start going to town on all that JUICY nectar.

See, as a bee, you have a specially-adapted tongue that slurps up all that nectar into one of your two bee stomachs.

And this continues for more than a thousand different flowers until…

OK, back to the hive!

Now, on the way back, digestive enzymes in your stomach are already working to turn that nectar into sweet.. delicious.. Honey…

(This is where the grossness comes in)

Yeah, you start vomiting all that nectar into the mouth of another bee!

That bee then vomits into another bee’s mouth…

And so on and so on…

See, this is actually a crucial part of the honey making process.

Each bee adds some more stomach enzymes to the vomit chain, which help to break down the nectar from big complex sugars into simple ones.

But we’re not done yet!

Look, it’s still pretty watery.

So the bees start aggressively beating their wings, to turn the nectar from runny to thick.

And finally, they cap it off with a beeswax lid…

And there you have it… HONEY!

… yummy right? 

Stay Cute,
Reece, Henry & Dylan 🌈

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