Most of us love honey: spread on toast or added to a hot drink to soothe a scratchy hayfever throat from all that flowering going on outdoors. There are more than 20, bee species around the world, with more than species native to Australia. When we think of honey-making bees we mostly think of European honey bees.
Their scientific name is Apis Mellifera. There are 10 other known species of honey bees around the world, including the giant honey bee in Nepal and Indonesia and the Eastern honey bee from Southeast Asia. Older worker bees are the ones that fly around out in nature looking for flowers.
They fly up to 5km from the colony, visiting between 50 to flowers each trip. Bees work together as a team to decide where the best flowers to visit are, communicating this information with dance moves, noises and bumping into each other. The bees visiting flowers are collecting nectar, the main ingredient for honey.
Bees have a long, strawlike tongue called a proboscis, which they use to suck up nectar from the nectary, the part of a flower that makes nectar. Bees also have a regular stomach for the food they eat and digest. H ave you ever wondered how bees make honey though? Although there are about 20, different species of bees in the world, only the honeybee makes the kind of honey we are used to eating.
These bees produce honey to feed themselves, which makes them different from creatures that eat things like fruits, nuts and other insects. Honeybees make honey as a way of storing and saving food for colder months when they are not able to leave their hive as often and there are not as many flowers to gather food from. You might be wondering, if honeybees make honey to feed themselves, is it ok for humans to take it and eat it , too?
The answer is yes, since these bees actually make about two to three times more honey each year than they need to survive the winter. In fact, about one-third of the food we eat is pollinated by bees. Did you know the yellow fuzzy honey bee is just one of over 20, bee species in the world? There are more than 1, in Australia alone, some of which can make honey.
Some native stingless bees only found in Australia , such as Tetragonula carbonaria and Austroplebeia australis , produce honey too. There are also ten other honey bee species overseas, such as the giant honey bee Apis dorsata in Nepal and Indonesia, which live at the top of high cliffs and large trees. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth.
Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. All honey starts off as being clear and runny, however, over time, some honey can set and become thicker and grainy—this is called set honey.
Put your butter, sugar, and honey into a large saucepan. Heat it gently until the butter melts and the sugar dissolves. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the oats.
Spoon the mix into a greased baking tray. Get a grown-up to put it into the oven for 15 minutes. Image credit: With thanks to mamboman1 for the bee collecting nectar picture. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
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