What is the method and process of honey collection by bees?

1, collection tool: bees collect honey through mouthparts, which are insects' mouths, and bees' mouthparts belong to chewing mouthparts. Its mouthparts maintain a knife-axe-shaped upper jaw, which has the ability to chew solid pollen and build a hive, while its lower lip is extended to form a slender tube with a long slot in the middle, which is helpful for sucking. If this small tube is put into a flower, it can continuously absorb nectar. With such mouthparts, bees can not only collect pollen, but also suck nectar.

2. Find the source of honey:

(1) Bees start by looking for honey sources. Before a large number of worker bees go out to collect, there will always be a few "reconnaissance bees" going out to look for them. Once the "reconnaissance bee" finds the honey source of flowering, it lands on the flower and sucks the nectar into the honey sac (stomach) with its tubular mouth (beak).

(2) After the honey sac is full, fly back to the nest, and first distribute the nectar brought back to friends around you bit by bit, so that they can taste and be familiar with the nectar and sweet fragrance. At the same time, they also vibrate their wings, swing their bodies, dance "circle dance" or "swing dance" on the nest and spleen, and tell their companions which direction and how far they are with "dance language". The field bees who got the information flew to the honey source in large numbers and began to collect nectar busily and nervously.

3. Bees collect honey: When the collected bees return home with full load, they will pass the honey in the honey bag to the bees in the office mouth-to-mouth like passing the baton in the relay race, or stay in the empty nest for a while, and then immediately go out for the second collection ... so fly again and again! Pick it up! Until dark.

4. honey brewing: most of the work of honey brewing is done by office bees. When making honey, these office bees turn their honey sacs and mouthparts into "small processing workshops". They constantly inhale and spit out the nectar of bees in the field, and at the same time mix the invertase secreted by salivary glands with nectar. Under the action of invertase, sucrose in nectar is continuously decomposed into monosaccharides-fructose and glucose, which are also absorbed by digestive tract. At the same time, another part of the domestic bees are arranged in a certain formation on the channels inside and outside the nest, and at the same time, they flap their wings to fan the wind, so that the airflow can quickly pass through the hive to take away a lot of water in the nectar and concentrate it.

5. Honey making: When the outside weather is good, the honey source is good, the honey enters quickly, and the honey juice is thin, the domestic bees will keep making honey and speed up storage. They will divide the honey juice into small water drops and hang them on the roofs of many bird's nests, in order to increase the surface area and accelerate the evaporation of water.