We all know bees collect pollen but how is it made into sweet gold honey? Also, is the only reason why people haven’t made a synthetic version is because it’s easier to have the bees do it for us?
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This is kind of irrelevant, but super interesting. As a biochem student, I have never had an interest in insects or such. I took a Honey Bee course (as an easy elective) and I was amazed. I would say bees are the most interesting and most intelligent creatures you could ever imagine. You should look into how they communicate. It is beyond insane. Within a 1 minute little dance, they are able to communicate to the other forager bees EXACTLY where a food source (pollen/nectar is) – It has been proven that the exact coordinates and distance can be interpreted. I could go on about this forever but search up how much information can be interpreted from a bee’s dance; it’s crazy!
Also – it would be next to impossible for us to create our own honey because you require nectar – which would be incredibly difficult for humans to obtain.
**Edit:** I have created a [link](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KpZh8dr5nEfLmJipozU6oURYqeyleIYs?usp=sharing) – This has my class notes, the textbook we used (excuse the strange formatting) and a couple of other books we looked at which are pretty interesting. Happy reading!
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