January 6, 2016

Did you know honey is just regurgitated nectar? When a honey bee collects nectar from flowers, she (all worker bees are females) stores it in the second stomach, the "honey stomach." While in the stomach, the nectar is broken down into simple, more digestible sugars by the bee's enzymes. Afterwards, she heads back to the hive and passes the nectar to another worker bee using their tongues! This worker bee also processes the nectar. Eventually the product is placed into one of the honeycomb cells and left to dry out into a thick syrup.