how do bees make honey exactly?
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Bees have two stomachs, one for digestion, and one to store nectar. They eat the nectar from a flower and it goes into their “honey stomach” where there are special enzymes that change the nectar into honey. An enzyme is a special protein interacts with molecules and changes them. In this case breaking down the sugars in the nectar into honey.
When worker bees who harvest the nectar then take it to the hive and vomit the nectar/honey into a honeycomb hex, and then other bees in the hive will drink it up and regurgitate it over and over to churn it. Then they will use their wings to cool it down in the final stage.
Kind of a weird process to think about, but many biological processes transform the food we eat. Honey just do happens to be made inside a bee’s stomach.
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