Insecta Inspecta World - Honey Bees
Insecta Inspecta World - Honey Bees
The Honors Academy
Thornton Jr. High School
Fremont, California
Buzz! What a busy honey bee! Honey bees make and do things that are helpful to humans. They are very interesting insects. Honey bees provide us with honey, royal jelly, beeswax,and propolis. They are very cooperative insects and have good colony structure. They are the prime pollinators of the planet. Honey bees are social insects. A typical hive is divided primarily into worker bees and drones, ruled by the queen. Now let’s go find out the wonderful things that bees do that help us!
Honey bees have to go through a long process to make honey. The house bee and the field bee are involved in the process. First the field bee goes out and collects nectar, which it stores in an internal honey sac. They bring it back to the hive and transfer it to the house bee tongue to tongue. Then the house bee spreads a drop of nectar on the roof of a cell in a comb. During the next couple of days other house bees fan their wings over the nectar so that the moisture evaporates (nectar is 80% water and honey is 19% water). Finally, more house bees cover every cell filled with modified nectar with a thin layer of wax.
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