This may be the only food in the world which can never go bad!
It is also the word which your spouse can occasionally call you when she is ready to forgive you for her mistake!
No no! Stop imagining some animal!
It is Honey! The former one that is! the latter I am more or less sure!
Honey has been called the only food that truly lasts forever, thanks to its magical chemistry and the handiwork of bees. The nectar from flowers mixes with enzymes inside the bees that extract it, which changes the nectar’s composition and breaks it down into simple sugars that are deposited into honeycombs. Fanning action from the bees’ wings and the enzymes from their stomachs create a liquid that is both highly acidic and low in moisture!
Which is why it is so lucky that the Bees did not take after their ancestors!
Evolution wise bees and the wasps were actually cousins! Both Bees and Wasps have evolved from single ancestor; the Hunting wasps!
Bees evolved from hunting wasps more than 100 million years ago and it can be hard to tell the two apart!
One way to do this could be to take them out for dinner, as in general bees are vegetarian and wasps are carnivorous!
Only honey bees make large quantities of honey and wax. Bumblebees make a small amount of both, but not on the same commercial level. There are eleven species of honeybees, also known as ‘Apis’, worldwide but ‘Apis mellifera’ is the most productive honey producing species.
All bees forage for protein-rich pollen and sugar-rich nectar from flowers. Honeybees convert nectar into honey so that it can used as a source of food through the winter, when nectar is scarce. The honey has a higher calorific value than pure nectar and can be stored for longer as it is more resistant to bacterial degradation. A healthy colony can produce two or three times the amount of honey it needs.
Now the issue is that the wings of the Bees are actually smaller for their bodies and feels like a misfit! But nature is the perfect engineer!
Scientists used to think that a bee’s wings were rigid, making bees kind of like little planes that moved hard wings up and down. But bee wings are fairly small for their body size, so even at 230 beats per second, rigid wings wouldn’t be able to let bees fly!
Using high-quality video that could show the bee wing beats in slow motion, they finally figured the secret. Their wings are not rigid, but twist and rotate during flight. Bee wings make short, quick sweeping motions front and back, front and back.
This motion creates enough lift to make it possible for bees to fly. Scientists think that this inefficient style of flying bees lets them carry heavy loads when needed. That ability comes in handy a lot for honey bees, who carry nectar and pollen from flowers back to the hive! Bees of course are the most important species of the world!
Social bees protect themselves and their colonies by stinging, but you are unlikely to be stung unless you disturb a nest or handle a female bee roughly.
Most bee stings are very mild, but can be extremely dangerous if you are allergic to bee venom.
Bee venom is most potent in summer when protein-rich pollen is freely available.
Male bees, like the male Red mason bee, ‘Osmia bicornis’, don’t have a sting!
There are also many species of stingless bees.
You may have heard the phrase ‘the bee’s knees’; the saying means an outstandingly good person or thing! Like “all this car needs is a little fine tuning to make it the bee’s knees” but did you know that bees don’t actually have knees?
Bees have a rigid exoskeleton, a hard covering that supports and protects their bodies, rather than internal bones. They don’t have kneecaps, but they do have leg joints between the femur and tibia.
Then again the work they do make them outstanding! It is estimated that around 70% of the crops we eat rely on the interplay of plant and bee and they are one of the most important species on the Earth!
Important also are those who give everything to art! Like Chris bale!
A quick sketch but do concentrate on the blog! Honey!
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