Tiny Bee Came Visiting

It was to have reached 18c today but a cold easterly wind kept things much cooler.

Nothing much to write about today.. just house work and catching up with things. I took a walk around the garden and this bee arrived just at the right time. It was enjoying gather nectar from the Lily of the Valley tree.

Honeybees use nectar to make honey. Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants and flowers and is almost 80% water with some complex sugars. Bees use their long, straw like tube tongues called a proboscis so they can suck the nectar out of the flowers and store it in their “honey stomachs”. This is separate from and in front of its digestive stomach and is used only for storing nectar. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honey stomachs.
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