Hi Beegether Members,
I hope you enjoyed the festivities earlier in the week, and you are well rested and jubilant to hear about honey! Since there was a lot of festivities this weekend, I've decided not to give an action today. However, I'd like to congratulate you on your last action. Great job on your pollinating skills by sharing the Beegether website! I visited my stats page and I was overjoyed to see more people visiting than who I sent the email out to! Phenomenal pollinators! Thank you for your never-ending support of me and the bees. But before you clean up your BBQ leftovers, let's learn what bees collect and how they make it into honey. Honeybees collect three things: nectar, pollen, and water. As you know, bees collect pollen from various flowers, pollinating the plants, enabling them to grow. Did you know it isn't just pollen they receive from the plants, it's nectar too? Nectar provides an energy source for the bees, which are carbohydrates, giving proteins and fats, important to their health. Nectar is used to feed adult bees and larva older than three days old, deposited into honeycomb cells, which then would be fanned by the bee's delicate wings, evaporating water from the nectar creating honey. The bees will cap the honey cells, and this will be the bee's winter food source when they are unable to forage for food. *Note: Honeybees only A Busy Bee, Natasha🐝 In case you want to see this in a different format: http://beegether.weebly.com/blog
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Meet the Blogger!Hi there! I'm Natasha. I blog on bees, gardening, making a change, and blogging. I hope you are inspired to make a difference!
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