How Bees Make Honey — From Nectar to Golden Honey
How bees make honey — the complete journey from flower nectar to golden honey. Forager bees collect nectar in their honey stomachs, pass it to house bees through trophallaxis, who add enzymes (invertase, glucose oxidase, diastase) to convert sucrose into glucose and fructose. The bees then ripen the honey by fanning to reduce water content from 70% to below 18.6%, before capping the cells with beeswax.
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