Honey!

It was a summery afternoon I was sitting in my garden having high tea. Suddenly I could hear a buzzing. I took out my camera and started clicking. But while taking the pic I realized that how much time does it take for a bee to make an adequate amount of honey.

Production Of Honey
Honey is produced by bees as a food source. To produce about 500 grams of honey, foraging honey bees have to travel the equivalent of three times around the world. In cold weather or when fresh food sources are scarce, bees use their stored honey as their source of energy. By contriving for bee swarms to nest in artificial hives, people have been able to semidomesticate the insects and harvest excess honey. Honey bees transform saccharides into honey by a process of regurgitation, a number of times, until it is partially digested. The bees do the regurgitation and digestion as a group. After the last regurgitation, the aqueous solution is still high in water, so the process continues by evaporation of much of the water and enzymatic transformation.