Information on Honeybee Pollen
Bees gather pollen from flowers and use it to make honey. It enables them to survive cold winters and create future generations of queens, workers and soldiers. Pollen is vital for bee survival, and bees protect their stores with their lives.
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Interesting Bee Pollen Fact
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Entomophile pollen and anemophile pollen are the two types of pollen. Entomophile pollen is what bees actually collect and use. Bees leave behind the anemophile pollen grains.
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What is Bee Pollen?
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Bee pollen is entomophile pollen; this is special pollen bees collect from flowers and grasses. Bee pollen also contains essential minerals, proteins, amino acids, carbohydrates and vitamins, A, C, D and E.
How Bees Make Honey
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Bees do not actually make pollen; they use collected pollen to make their honey. Bees create honey by passing pollen from mouth to mouth while mixing it with their saliva. They also have a honey stomach that helps to create honey. Once finished, they place it in special chambers in the hive and evaporate moisture with controlled wing beats. This prevents fermentation that could cause the honey to spoil.
What Bees Use Pollen For
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Bees eat pollen as a natural source of protein while rearing their young. Bees also use pollen to create honey. Honey is a vital source of food that enables a colony of bees to survive as well as expand into new territory. Using pollen, bees will even make a special honey called royal jelly. They give this special honey only to bees that will eventually become queens.
Bee Pollen for Energy
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The pollen produced by bees contains the vitamin B5, a vitamin known for its energy-infusing properties. Bees need energy to live, breed, explore for new pollen hunting grounds and to build more honeycombs.
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Comments
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It is scary that eHow lets thing like this get posted. They should really make sure that the person writing these at least has half a clue about the subject before allowing them to be published. This is one for eHowNot.
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Well said Mark :)
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When the first sentence is absolutely wrong, how accurate can the rest of this article be. Honey is made from Nectar, not pollen. "Pollen is the protein that builds the baby bees. It comes from all sorts of flowering plants and trees. Honey comes from Nectar, which for the bees is fuel. These are a couple of things you may have missed in school." Mark Berninghausen, 2000.
