ENVS 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Honey Flow, Refractometer, Invertase
19 Apr 2019
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Unit 9 honey production and pre winter management. Viscous saturated sugar produced by honey bees from nectar. Contains simple sugars (mainly glucose and fructose) which do not require additional digestion along with proteins (including enzymes, vitamins, minerals and water (20% or less) This is an unsaturated sugar solution produced by flowering plants that contain complex carbohydrates (sucrose). It is collected and processed by bees to transform it into honey. Both nectar and honey are used by bees as a source or carbohydrates. Factors influencing storage of a surplus honey crop in hives include abundance of nectar producing plants, suitable weather for honey production and bee foraging and populated colonies. The process of nectar collection and posterior transformation into honey by bees is: foraging bees collect nectar from flowers and transport it (via honey crop) to the hibe. They visit on average 2 million flowers to produce 1 lb of honey.
