If, like me, you thought the yellow dusty stuff called pollen is what creates honey you would be mistaken. Turns out, bees have a long straw-like tongue that sucks a flower’s nectar into one of their two stomachs. Into, that’s right, their honey stomach.
After collection, they return to the hive where their honey stomach’s contents are regurgitated into the mouth of another bee to be processed in their honey stomach. And then again to another bee.
Since nectar is watery, this repeated upchucking process helps thicken the substance before being deposited in the honeycomb thereby becoming what we know and love as honey.
Sweet dreams. Love, Jaclynn
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