Honey Bee Hive - How Do Bees Make Honey?

This is honey bee hive. Bees live in elaborate structure like this where they take care of infants, store honey and protect the queen , who is in charge of the colony. You are now entering the hive , where you can learn more about the honey bees. Watch the video carefully and read the contents. How Much Honey Can One Beehive Produce? One hive can produce 60lb (27kg) or more in a good season, however an average hive would be around 25lb (11kg) surplus. Bees fly about 55,000 miles to make just one pound of honey, that's 1½ times around the world! Bees have been producing honey the same way for over one hundred and fifty million years . How Do Bees Make Honey? Bees take nectar, which is a sweet sticky substance exuded by most flowers and some insects (Honey dew), and mix it with enzymes from glands in their mouths. This nectar/enzyme mix is stored in hexagonal wax honeycomb until the water content has been reduced to around 17%. When this level is reached the cell is capped over with a thin layer of wax to seal it until the bees need it. This capping indicates to the beekeeper that the honey can be harvested. Capped honey can keep almost indefinitely. For the school swot: Sucrose (nectar) + inverters (bee enzyme) = fructose + glucose = honey. Honey bees have the honor of making nature's perfect sweetener honey. Beekeepers provide hives for the honeybees to live in and produce cells full of healthy, flavorful honey. The beekeepers then help tidy the hive by harvesting the honey for human consumption.