2. Honeycomb and honey

The bees collect nectar from the flowers, convert it to honey, and store them in honeycombs or beehives.

 

 

The beehives are the place where the honeybees store their larvae, honey,and pollen. The beekeepers collect the honey by removing the entire honeycomb.

In a beehive, there are \(3\) types of honeybees. They are the queen bee, drones, and the worker bees.

The worker bees collect the nectar from the flowers. They nourish the young ones and repair the beehive and also protect it.

The formation of honey is a multi-step process as follows:

 

The quality of the honey depends upon the flowers from which the bees collect the nectar and pollen.

Raw organic wild honey is extracted by the tribal honey hunters in the forests and jungles.

 

 

Honey contains substances like amino acids, ascorbic acids, B-complex vitamins, and minerals. It contains invertase enzyme and formic acid which act as a preservative.

  

Uses:

The honeybee collects nectar by visiting \(50\)  to \(100\) flowers during a collection trip. On average a bee can make only ${1/12}^{\mathit{th}}$ of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifespan. One kilogram of honey contains \(3200 \) calories and hence serves as an energy-rich food.