AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -House bees take the nectar inside the colony and pack it away in hexagon-shaped beeswax honey cells. They then turn the nectar into honey by drying it out using a warm breeze made with their wings. Once the honey has dried out, they put a lid over the honey cell using fresh beeswax – kind of like a little honey jar.

Detailed explanation-2: -The nectar is extracted straight from the flower and put into the honey bee’s second stomach called the honey sac. Inside this sac, enzymes break down the sugars from the nectar into fructose and glucose, two simple sugars honey bees digest easily.

Detailed explanation-3: -As the nectar is passed from bee to bee, it is turned into honey. Once the nectar becomes honey, the honeybees will store it in honeycomb cells, which act as little jars made of wax. The bees then flap their wings over the honey to make it thicker and more like syrup instead of sweet juice.

Detailed explanation-4: -Honeybees initially gather nectar from flowers through their tongue and are stored in their stomach. Nectar is a sweet, sugary liquid extract from flowers that is sucked by bees through their tube-like tongues and is stored in the honey stomach which is different from their food stomach.