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Bee life cycle

Pets & Animals 3 days ago
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    Hollyg
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    A surprising fact about bees you might not have known. 🐝💛
    Bees have two stomachs: one for eating, which is their digestive stomach, and another for storing nectar, which they then transform into honey, also called nectar crop.
    A worker bee lives for about 40 days, and during that time it visits about 7,000 flowers to produce 5 grams of honey, which is equivalent to about a teaspoon.
    For us it's just a little honey, but for the bee it was the hard work of his whole life.
     
     
    Here is how the bee's two-stomach system works:
    • The honey stomach (or crop): This stomach is an expandable, muscular pouch used to store nectar and water. A valve called the proventriculus separates it from the second stomach, which prevents nectar from entering the bee's digestive system. The bee can carry nearly its own body weight in nectar in its honey stomach. As the bee flies back to the hive, enzymes begin to break down the nectar into simpler sugars.
    • The true stomach (or ventriculus): This is the bee's digestive stomach, where it breaks down and absorbs food for its own energy. When the bee needs to eat, it can allow a small amount of nectar to pass into its true stomach for digestion.

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