How is Honey Made?
Chemistry my dear Watson,
Chemistry—that’s how honey is made.
Enzymes, disaccharides,
monosaccharides… there’s a brave
new world on the molecular level
of bees.
FOREWING
HAMULI
HINDWING
SPIRACLE
To understand why these small,
furry angels should be reared in
every garden in the world, we’re
going to break down the process
of Nectar->Honey->You… and then
highlight some of the health benefits
associated with the Golden Font that
is the beehive.
How is Honey Made:
The Growing
The first step in the life cycle of honey
is in the ground. It’s in the dormant
radicule that lays all winter asleep,
waiting for the frost to let up… That’s
just a fancy way of saying, “Honey
starts as a seed.”
Bees collect nectar from flowering
plants, and some of those plants start
with a good garden Even unwelcome
weeds flower. Fireweed and knapweed
have flowers that feed bees and
become some of the most prized
honey variants you can come across.
So the honey we eat starts as a seed,
grows from a stalk to a flower that
opens petals to attract the itinerant
honey bee. And this is where we get
into the insides of the honey bee.
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