How Do Bees Make Honey? - The Dr. Binocs Show | Best Learning Videos For Kids | Peekaboo Kidz

Humming Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Phew! That was close. Hey friends, I know you must be wondering, why am I carrying this small box so cautiously, with care and precaution. Well, in this box lies a bottle of sweet, golden and natural honey. And I need to deliver it to my aunt without wasting a single drop of it. I know, I know you guys must be like, what's the big deal in it? Well friends, we all know that honey bees make honey. But, do you know, it takes a great effort and hard work from bees, to make the honey we enjoy. If not, then don't you worry friends, today let us go into the buzzing world of these tiny chefs, we call honey bees, and learn the recipe for nature's sweetest dessert, known as honey. Zoom in! Well friends, honey is sugar, which mainly constitutes of fructose and glucose, made by honey bees living in a large group called a colony. This colony lives in a hive and has thousands of female worker bees, who make the honey. First, the worker bees, who are also known as forager, visit flowers containing sugar water, and then, with the help of their hollow straw like tongue, called proboscis, they suck up the nectar from the flower, and store it into its tummy. While returning to their beehive, digestive enzymes are already processing, to turn that nectar into different parts of sugar, like glucose and fructose. Once the worker honey bee returns to the hive, they vomit the nectar into a processor honey bee's mouth. I know it sounds yucky, but please bear with me friends, cause it's going to get yuckier, but anything for science and desserts, go away, go away kitty, shoo shoo! After breaking the nectar further, the processor honey bee vomits the partially converted nectar, into another processor bee's mouth. This process goes on until most of the nectar, turns into simple sugar. Then the bee moves this watery honey mix from its tummy, into its mouth and then stores it into the honeycomb. But this dew nectar mix is still quite watery and gooey, so to get rid of most of the water, the smart bees flap their wings, which evaporate the water, leaving the thick mixture we know as honey. Did you know that in its whole life, a single bee only produces about one and a half teaspoon of honey? Whoa! Get out of my way! Worker bees have to fly a whopping 55,000 miles, to produce a pound of honey. And it takes about 556 foraging bees, to visit 2 million flowers to do so. Suddenly, the homework seems an easier task to do, isn't it? Also, honey is a precious gift of nature to us, as it is full of vitamins, minerals and has many medicinal benefits. Beyond that, honey also has many anti-microbial, and healing properties linked with it. That's why my friends, we should value the efforts of honey bees, and cherish every drop of honey. See you soon with more fun facts. Until next time, it's me Zooming out.