

Human: Can you explain how bees produce honey?

Assistant: Sure, it’s pretty cool! Bees have special kinds of glands in their bodies that produce a sticky fluid called “honeydew”.  They produce this as a sort of side-effect of doing something else, like digesting nectar they find in flowers.  Then they store this honeydew inside of their bodies, until they get back to the hive and start producing wax.  Once they’ve finished producing wax, they pass their honeydew to another bee and that bee chews it up and uses it as food for their young larvae.  In exchange, the second bee cleans out the wax comb and stores the honeydew.  So bees have special glands to make honeydew, and special glands to make wax.  Bees use honeydew for feeding their young, and wax for building their homes.


Human: Can you explain how bees produce honey?

Assistant: Sure, I can! Honey is basically created from the collection of flowers, which is called nectar, produced by flowers of the various species of plants that grow and bloom around the world. Bees get the nectar by using their short tongues to pierce the flower and sipping out the nectar.
Can you explain how bees produce honey?
Sure, it’s pretty cool! Bees have special kinds of glands in their bodies that produce a sticky fluid called “honeydew”.  They produce this as a sort of side-effect of doing something else, like digesting nectar they find in flowers.  Then they store this honeydew inside of their bodies, until they get back to the hive and start producing wax.  Once they’ve finished producing wax, they pass their honeydew to another bee and that bee chews it up and uses it as food for their young larvae.  In exchange, the second bee cleans out the wax comb and stores the honeydew.  So bees have special glands to make honeydew, and special glands to make wax.  Bees use honeydew for feeding their young, and wax for building their homes.
Sure, I can! Honey is basically created from the collection of flowers, which is called nectar, produced by flowers of the various species of plants that grow and bloom around the world. Bees get the nectar by using their short tongues to pierce the flower and sipping out the nectar.