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From flower to beehive
Honey is a food that bees make by collecting nectar from flowers.
The harvest is a work of precision: the bee penetrates inside the
corolla and sucks up the drops of nectar flower after flower, until
her honey sack is full.
In one day a bee can visit many thousands of flowers. This work
is done methodically, on the basis of the information that other
bees transmit by dancing. When the bee reaches the beehive, she
finds another bee waiting to collect the harvest which is then passed
from one bee to the next until the nectar is dense (water is lost
in each passage). Finally nectar is deposited in the cells where
it is further concentrated. Only when it is mature do the bees shut
the cells with a layer of wax. The food reserves are ready for the
winter.
In the preparation of honey, ventilator-bees are also important.
With the movement of their wings
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