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    Honey is produced by bees from nectar collected from flowers. The bees collect nectar in their stomachs and return to the hive, where they pass the nectar to other bees through regurgitation. This passing process adds enzymes that break down the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars like fructose and glucose. The bees then evaporate water from the nectar through fanning their wings to thicken it into honey, which is then sealed with beeswax.

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    Honey is produced by bees from nectar collected from flowers. The bees collect nectar in their stomachs and return to the hive, where they pass the nectar to other bees through regurgitation. This passing process adds enzymes that break down the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars like fructose and glucose. The bees then evaporate water from the nectar through fanning their wings to thicken it into honey, which is then sealed with beeswax.

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    How Honey Bees Made Honey?

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    Honey is produced by bees from nectar collected from flowers. The bees collect nectar in their stomachs and return to the hive, where they pass the nectar to other bees through regurgitation. This passing process adds enzymes that break down the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars like fructose and glucose. The bees then evaporate water from the nectar through fanning their wings to thicken it into honey, which is then sealed with beeswax.

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    Name : TRISHA EUNGELICA ARDYADANA SAMBO

    Class : XI MIPA 1
    Number : 35

    HOW HONEY-BEE MADE HONEY?

    Honey is a golden-thick liquid that produced by bee.

    One healthy hive will make and consume more than 50 kg of honey in a single year and it
    takes a lot of work.

    Honey is made from nectar, but it doesn’t come out of flowers as that golden, sticky stuff.
    After finding a suitable food source, bees dive in a head-first using their long specially-
    adapted tongues to slurp tiny sips of nectar into one of their stomachs, one of them is honey
    stomach.

    On the way back to the hive, digestive enzymes are already working to turn that nectar into
    sweet gold. When the bee returns to the hive, the forager bee will vomit the nectar into the
    mouth of another worker. That bee will vomit it into another bee’s mouth and so on. This step
    is an important part of the honey-making process, since each bee add more digestive enzymes
    to turn long chains of complex sugars in the raw nectar into simple monosaccharides, like
    fructose and glucose.

    At this point, the nectar is still pretty watery, so the bees beat their wings and create an air
    current inside the hive to evaporate the thicken the nectar, finally capping the cell with
    beeswax so the ezyme-ric bee-barf can complete its transformation into honey.

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