How Do Bees Make Honey?
Digest Nectar

Worker bees assist to digest nectar

Foragers have enzymes in their stomachs and the breakdown process begins en-route while the forager is collecting away from the hive.

Enzymes facilitate breakdown of the complex sucrose sugar, a disaccharide, into simple sugars of glucose and fructose (monosaccharides).

Evaporating away moisture to create honey

The workers continue to process the liquid by manipulating it in mouth parts then moving it by small drops to the upper chamber walls of honeycomb cells where they can fan it with their wings.

Fanning from the wing movement and the increased air circulation facilitates the evaporation of water.

Amazingly -- now this liquid-sugar from plants is transformed into the delicious, thickened, luscious, gooey, consistency we all know and love as honey!

About Bee Stings
Digest and Evaporate Nectar
Feed and Store Nectar