Collection of pollen & nectar from flowers as food and conversion to honey: Micro-video & short note

From flowers such as bottle brush and powder puff (watch micro video), honey bees collect pollen and nectar for two useful functions as follows.

• Collecting nectar as food for the colony

• Pollinating plants

In fact, bees collect nectar from flowers and store it within their stomachs and then pass it on from one worker bee to the next.

Within the stomachs of the worker bees, water of nectar diminishes and it becomes thick honey, which in turn they store in the cells of the honeycomb.