HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
APICULTURE
Question
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Nectar of a flower
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Nectar and water sucked by honey bee
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Nectar mixed with saliva stored in the honey sac
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Nectar stored in the wax gland
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Detailed explanation-1: -Solution: Honey is a sweet, viscous fluid produced by honeybees. Bees make honey from the nectar collected from flowers by regurgitation, enzymatic activity, and water evaporation. The nectar is mixed with saliva and stored in a honey sac.
Detailed explanation-2: -Honey is usually made from nectar, the sweet liquid produced by flowers to entice bees and spread their pollen. A worker bee sucks up the nectar through a long, thin tube called a proboscis and keeps it in a special honey stomach, known as the crop, which can hold up to 80 per cent of a bee’s weight in nectar.
Detailed explanation-3: -Honey bees collect pollen and nectar as food for the entire colony, and as they do, they pollinate plants. Nectar stored within their stomachs is passed from one worker to the next until the water within it diminishes. At this point, the nectar becomes honey, which workers store in the cells of the honeycomb.