A honey bee colony is the main objective as possible to survive the creation of so much honey by winter in the spring. in contrast to the majority of bees, including bumblebees, it is not only the Queen Bee over winters, but also some of the workers.
How honey is made.
Worker bees (always women) life to spend in the spring and summer for the last 3 weeks of their lives foraging for nectar and pollen and 6 weeks on average. A bee goes from flower to flower, often up to 1500 in a journey and flies up to 3 miles from their hive, nectar, honey produce to collect.
Drag a flower blossom from his tribe and nectar is the clear fluid that it falls from the end. In the UK and North America, bees get nectar of flowers such as clover, Heathers and berries and fruit tree flowers.
With their long, tube like tongues like straws draw the nectar from the flowers and then in their stomachs ' honey ' store. Honey bees have two stomachs; they use the honey stomach, to take nectar and their regular stomach. Honey is perfect stomach separately from the stomach digestive, the two that can be opened when they need to although there is a valve connects their energy levels to top up.
Honey stomach holds almost 2.5 oz nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee itself. If your stomach honey full is the tree back and passes the nectar on another worker bee or "Bee house". These bees collect the nectar from the forager honeybee's stomach through the mouth. Worker bee flies back the forager, weather and time allow day to collect more.
Bees House ' chew ' the nectar for about a half hour during this, the enzymes that break down complex sugars (sucrose) in the nectar into simple sugars (fructose and glucose), so that it while it attacked both more digestible for the bees and less likely by bacteria stored within the structure of is time. Nectar in the honeycomb, where water vaporizes it turned into a thick syrup then distributed the bees. The bees speed up the drying out of stir up the nectar with their wings. As soon as the nectar enough, sticky humidity level, which has, been reduced between 14 and 18% fermentation to the end, is it now honey and bees seal off (Cap) of the cell honeycomb with a wax plug. The honey is stored until it is needed. Within a year, a colony of bees eating can between 120 and 200 pounds of honey. 35-40 Are a strong colony on average to see them through winter, lbs honey so that greedy beekeepers must make sure that they have to leave them enough.
As long as the moisture content below 18%, virtually no organism can multiply successfully as the high sugar content will kill them to significant levels in honey.Therefore honey during archaeological excavations of thousands of years found before is still theoretically fit to eat.
Maggie Roberts is a professional writer and bee-keepers, with a particular passion for sharing their knowledge of bees and their role in the natural world.
