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Smologies #4: BEES with Amanda Shaw
Ologies with Alie Ward
How Do New Queens Come Out of Hollows?
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A swarm is like a birth of a new colony. And it happens in the springtime, when bees are coming out of winter. The bee goes out and gathers some nectar, and they they use their tongue, their proboscis to suck that up. They then do this thing called trophylaxis: It's a their regurgating the the nectar into another bee's mouth. So after they pass it back and forth, they'll put it into a little honeycomb cell. This reduces the moisture content of the nectar o lo because the nectar is very high in moisture. Am ideally for harvested honey, 17 % is the most moisture that you'd want to
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