t’s the time every beekeeper longs for – Honey harvest time! But how do bees make honey? WARNING! Don’t read this blog if you love honey and are a bit squeamish!
Why the warning? Well bees essentially make honey by regurgitating nectar into each others mouths. I always reassure myself with the fact that they don’t use their eating stomach to do this, they have a special second stomach called a honey crop. I like to think of it as an internal nectar carrier. It makes the whole regurgitation thing a little more palatable.