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The Honeybee's Scientific Name

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The honeybee’s scientific name is Apis mellifera, Apis meaning “swarm”, and Mellifera meaning “honey-bearing”. Bees are widely known and appreciated for their ability to make honey. To make honey, they go through an intricate and devoted process.

Bees start the process of creating honey by collecting nectar from flowers. Every bee in the hive has a different job, and only “forager” bees do this one. Once they have obtained the nectar from a flower, they deposit it into a unique pouch in their body called the honey pouch. The bees also mix an enzyme with the nectar called invertase. Invertase changes the sugar inside the nectar from sucrose into glucose and fructose.

After the forager bees return to the hive, they deposit the nectar they

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