Can bees go to the toilet?

Bees excrete feces. Bees can't fly when they are pupae, so the excrement of bees can only be excreted in the nest room at this time; After the new bees leave the house, the small worker bees will go to the nest to clean up the feces excreted by the pupae.

It is wrong to say that honey is made of substances extracted from bee excrement.

Honey is brewed by bees, not the excrement of bees.

After the nectar is sucked into the honey sac by the bees, it is mixed with saliva containing invertase, and the conversion process of sucrose begins. Honey making is undertaken by office bees. After the worker bees who collect nectar return to their nests, they will distribute nectar to one or several domestic bees.

After receiving nectar, the domestic bee climbs to a non-crowded place on the nest spleen, holds its head high, maintains a certain posture, and then opens its upper jaw to brew honey by opening and closing the folded part at the end of its beak.

Honey worker bees temporarily store honey in the nest room. Sucrose conversion and honey concentration continue. When the honey is ripe, the worker bees gradually transfer it to the nest room on the upper part of the egg circle or the lateral spleen and cover it with wax.

Honey enters quickly, and when honey is thin, domestic bees may not brew immediately. They often divide honey into droplets and hang them on the upper walls of several nests to increase the surface area of honey and accelerate the evaporation of water, and then collect them and brew them repeatedly. The ripening process of honey usually takes 5 ~ 7 days.

Honey in the market is mixed. When buying, you should choose translucent, shiny, liquid viscous, white to light yellow or orange to yellow brown, honey-scented.

Extended data:

Bees "collect honey" by sucking nectar or other secretions from the stamen roots and inhaling their specialized "honey stomach". Enzymes secreted by bees can ferment sucrose in nectar into easily absorbed glucose and fructose in about half an hour.

Take the Italian bee as an example. On average, the honey stomach of each worker bee can store about 40 mg of nectar. This amount is about the same as a drop of water, but it is half its weight, so thousands of flowers are often picked. In the honey picking season, a worker bee flies dozens of kilometers every day, and their life span is only 20-40 days due to high-intensity labor.

The main components of honey are sugar and water, which is equivalent to high concentration syrup, and also contains a small amount of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. For humans, honey is not only high in calories, but also contains sugar, glucose and fructose, which is easy to digest and absorb.

Before the era of great navigation, the extraction of sugar from sugarcane was mainly confined to South Asia, and honey was the best sweetener for people in many other parts of the world to eat sweets.

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