Honey Bees Make Honey ... and Bread? | Deep Look
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- Honey bees make honey from nectar to fuel their flight - and our sweet tooth. But they also need pollen for protein. So they trap, brush and pack it into baskets on their legs to make a special food called bee bread.
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Spring means honey bees flitting from flower to flower. This frantic insect activity is essential to growing foods like almonds, raspberries and apples. Bees move pollen, making it possible for plants to grow the fruit and seeds they need to reproduce.
But honey bees don’t just move pollen from plant to plant. They also keep a lot for themselves. They carry it around in neat little balls, one on each of their hind legs. Collecting, packing and making pollen into something they can eat is a tough, intricate job that’s essential to the colony’s well-being.
Older female adult bees collect pollen and mix it with nectar or honey as they go along, then carry it back to the hive and deposit it in cells next to the developing baby bees, called larvae. This stored pollen, known as bee bread, is the colony’s main source of protein.
“You don’t have bees flying along snacking on pollen as they’re collecting it,” said Mark Carroll, an entomologist at the US Department of Agriculture’s Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson. “This is the form of pollen that bees are eating.”
--- What is bee bread?
It’s the pollen that worker honey bees have collected, mixed with a little nectar or honey and stored within cells in the hive.
--- What is bee bread used for?
Bee bread is the main source of protein for adult bees and larvae. Young adult bees eat bee bread to make a liquid food similar to mammal’s milk that they feed to growing larvae; they also feed little bits of bee bread to older larvae.
--- How do honey bees use their pollen basket?
When a bee lands on a flower, it nibbles and licks off the pollen, which sticks to its head. It wipes the pollen off its eyes and antennae with a brush on each of its front legs, using them in tandem like windshield wipers. It also cleans the pollen off its mouth part, and as it does this, it mixes it with some saliva and a little nectar or honey that it carries around in a kind of stomach called a crop.
Then the bee uses brushes on its front, middle and hind legs to move the pollen, conveyor-belt style, front to middle to back. As it flies from bloom to bloom, the bee combs the pollen very quickly and moves it into baskets on its hind legs. Each pollen basket, called a corbicula, is a concave section of the hind leg covered by longish hairs that bend over and around the pollen.
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Me: I love bees. They are important for the ecosystem and they are cute.
Bee: *Buzz*
Me: ᵖˡᵉᵃˢᵉ ᵈᵒⁿᵗ ᵈᵉᵛᵒᵘʳ ᵐʸ ˢᵒᵘˡ
mood
Heh
-LOL-
Heh
Me
3:24
"Both for the adult bees, and the ba-bees"
Nice one
How is saying babies a nice one?
Ckc dillpickle lol r/whooooosh
D'aw~
• ́ ̄`•. !gεηηү lεηηү! .• ́ ̄`• she said babies. If she made a pun and actually say it like ba bees; it would be a joke. But OP read into it himself. So no joke. Einstein
Ckc dillpickle because these commenters are morons
They’re honestly so cute and adorable y’all 😭
no ikrr
Agreed. They're like up there with Moths in terms of cuteness.
Yeah so pure
._.
They are also so hardworking 😩
Poor little bees. We have to take better care of them. They’re so useful and cute🥺
Ikr. Honey bees are valuable and should be respected.
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@@DLIX2DCLI I swatt them every chance I get, they're super annoying
@@DLIX2DCLI I swatt them every chance I get, they're super annoying
@@marvinzimmerman1878 Bro just move to a new house
Anyone impressed with the camera quality?
Yeah
Kola Squad 100th like :D
Nope
Huawai
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How to make bee bread 101:
1. Find an open spot
2. Deposit
3. Marinate
4. ???
5. Bee bread
There are only 4 steps, the 4 step is bee bread
Yun Hin
It’s a reference to South Park’s underwear gnomes.
@@yunhin9631 r/wooooosh
Redacted: proprietary...
Instruction unclear, I am now bread.
“She even has it on her eyes”
And you guys complain about getting dust in your eye
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Bully Maguire: I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye...
I honestly am amazed at how cute and ingenious honeybees can get.
She protecc
She atacc
But most importantly, she make a bread snacc
This comment is so underrated.
_B R E A D_
This comment is so overused.
@@slamacatgt4296 eh who cares
It's still epic B)
So cringy just stop go away
Hornets: We expand. We take. Look at us and you die.
Honey bees: we like bread :-)
This ia underrated
Another Olivia ik this is a joke but hornets only sting when provoked or attacked
h a m b u r g e r N O のよう太
bred is gool
Wasps: and we just like to hurt people
Literally any other bug: y'all are f$$ked up
*Encounters a bee*
Bee: Hey want some honey?
Me: Guess ill die
Honey bees are a blessing, and they're so cute!!♡
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who finds bees cute! Now I'm not alone!
Bees with pompom legs are the cutest things ever!
Another great video!
Bees really are cute. Are they the cutest arthropods?
Maybe! I can't think of another. Maybe rolly poley bugs, aka pill bugs...they're pretty cute too.
At my bee keeping class we call them pollen pants!
i love honey
@@Jesse__H in may they're cute n cuddly. In August. ..run!
they maybe cute but they can kill you or sting you
I already know it’s good because it’s a Deep Look upload
Agreed.
True
;_;
deep look is my another fav channel
one of my fav channel
I'm addicted to honey 🍯.
After watching this I love it even more 😊
Me: nature sure is fascinating, the way bees work, very interesting.
Bee: 🐝
Me:💀
Bee: Ight imma shave my eyes
Human: What?
Bee: What?
Human: Ight imma shave my elbows
Bee: What?
Human: What?
This actually deserves more likes.
Reminded me of when SpongeBob brushed his eyes with a toothbrush
happy tree friends? haha
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"She's covered in 3 million hairs for trapping pollen"
Theres people who actually count bees hairs?
no , but it could be calculated by calculate the density of the hair per 1mm2 after multiply it of the (Area/1mm2)
THERE SO FUZZY
How bored can u get
Cry Baby I mean someone’s gotta do it
@@triple3way Smart way of counting... technically, still counting though.
BEEZ MAKE HONEY
0:59 "They're hairy, like tiny flying teddy bears."
Ummm.. So Lauren.. You want some teddy bear? 👉🏻👈🏻
Humans: let’s get this bread
Bees: let’s make this bread
Humans:Lets Steal it From babies
Police: *THAT IS ILLEGAL*
kuljit minhas What..
It's called a cycle
humans
*"Even on their eyes!"*
Man and I thought an eyelash in my eye was too much hair in my eye
Queen of Rainbow Zebras Yea, but honeybees are used to it, and humans are not.
@@alanoud2439 I will consume
TIG RESS yes
@@alanoud2439 And I assume compound eyes are more sturdy than our eyes.
Bees are amazing & so cute!
We agree!
They are so very precious! I love them so much and am so grateful for all they do for the planet and humanity. ❤️🐝🌸
I love bees so much. True proof that if you add fuzz to anything it becomes adorable.
Fuzzy fish?
Oh god no
I mistook "fuzz" and "buzz" for a moment there.
I like bees, but if one of them starts buzzing near me, I'd run with my hands flopping around
Doesn't work for spiders lol
@@justghostie4948 Fuzzy spiders are adorable. Like the little fuzzy jumping spiders? Totally true. Or Lucas if nothing else.
Me: I love bees so much, they are so cute!
Bee: *flies in front of me*
Me: 𝑆𝑖𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒
how did you write like that?
@@w.d.gaster3077 search "font changer" on google
Madame*. It will most probably be a lady bee that you see.
Daoyi Roodt for sure haha 😆
What does it say??
loved when the narrator said " both the adult bees and the bay-bees"
2:28 i was watching this with ear phones and when the bee started to buzz i thought there was a fly near me and i was waving my hand around LOL
Dwl😹🖐
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Bees are one of the greatest insects i've ever seen!
Wasps on the other hand....
@Sir Embrum49 The Great Moth Wasps kill pest insects, and multiple wasp species also pollinate.
Yellow jackets, paper wasps, great black wasps, fig wasps, bald faced hornet and plenty others pollinate.
@Sir Embrum49 The Great Moth Yeah though its worth mentioning that most predatory wasps are actually parasitoid wasps which hunt to capture insects and the like to serve as food for their larvae (typically by eating them from the inside out). Pollination is more of an adult food source. Aphids are a bit of an unusual prey in that they excrete sugary aphid dew which they use as food offerings for protection by wasps and ants. Some just go for the kill eating both the milk and the meat and ants even farm aphids
Wasps are really important. They eat a lot of nasty bugs that kill bees and plants
leonidas941 well I’d be fine with them if they weren’t so unnecessarily aggressive.
"She's hauling as much as 1/3 of her weight."
Ants: Amatuers.
Beetles: We are 4 parallel universe ahead of you.
I'd like to see an ant fly with that amount
😂😂😂😂
HonestBae Queen ants can haul two or three drones while mating mid air.
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Oh, so this is why bread and honey go so well together.
In all honesty, beautiful work. Really makes you learn about all of nature's little friends, well known or not.
They're so adorable honestly
I’ve pollen in love with Deep Look!
I beelieve we all have
Zzzzzzzzatisfyingly good these bee episodes are!!
@@moonlight_5836 no. Leave
@@slamacatgt4296 Hey, you, "buzz-off" for not "beeing" positive. 🤨🐜
@@moonlight_5836 0 good one. 👍🏾😆
The quality for these video is too wholesome for me. And for some reason we haven't reach 1 million subs yet.
pretty close tho!
It'll happen soon
Ikr
It just happened!
Einstein: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years left to live.”
I think he also said, despite all my rage, i am still just a rat in a cage.
bees are so hardworking and fascinating, i love them
My maternal grandfather, who I never met because he died when Mom was very young, kept bees. I wish I could have known him. Bees have always been fascinating to me. I have rescued a few honey and bumble bees with sugar water over the years, and I am comfortable handling them.
I have considered having hives in my yard, but never got off my duff to pursue it. Shoulda.
80’th like and first reply
116th like and 2nd reply
125th like and 3rd reply
Get off your duff and get a hive!
146th like and 5th reply
Humans: -I don’t want to go outside pollen makes me sneeze
- I can’t stand getting anything in my
Bees: let me fly eyes first into a flower so I can make bread
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Nidal Mohamed Labhih I actually thought it was a rickroll but it’s quite a wholesome video.
To be fair if bees just disappeared and there was no more pollen season it would speed up the whole world apocalypse a few hundred years
Honey Bees is little pies and adorable
Flying Teddy Bears is so cute
Beautiful honey bees 🐝 🥰
I just appreciate the hardworking people who made this video possible
3:27 imagine being born and then growing up to find out the house next to yours is just occupied by a giant bread
growing up next to a bread factory
paradise
@@brotherzlox5115 hahaha
Is it just me or they look so cute up close! :3
Star Gazer not just you! They are truly adorable:3
Just don’t zoom in on close up pictures of their face that’s horrifying.
Im a new bee keeper, And now I'm still learning how to take care of bee's. This helped me alot as a new bee keeper! I love this video.
This is unironically one of the most interesting things I’ve ever watched oh my god
Say what you will about these creatures, but there's always been some sort of quality of theirs that appeals to me on some level.
One example, for instance:
*H E X A G O N A L S Y M M E T R Y .*
That is true.
I know right??? I've always been fascinated by the fact they make little itty bitty hexagons to live in (well, grow their babies & food, but you get the point ha ha) AND they're always perfect!
Must've been the millions of years they have been given to evolve and be absolutely perfect.
I think that's the compelling factor with them. Everything they do is as absolutely efficient as possible. They're like perfectly calibrated machines.
@@ethanotoroculus1060 Absolutely! Ants are like that as well, but that's a different subject (sort of) ha ha.
Shame on nicolas cage for hating such hardworking creatures
Hi mrslav
I mean that's because of trauma so y e a h
Ok
Hi MR SLAV
@@tarikkalai2082 shut up Self promoter
as a 11 year old kid,im really suprised to see this channel,becuase its underatted and awesome to know more about animal and insect! makes me more wanna learn about it!
3:27 THE BA-🐝🐝🐝. Too good.
"Like tiny flying teddy bear"
Me: Awwwwwwww ....
Its all cute until the tiny teddy bears sting us and that 'Awwwwwwwww.....' is 👉😖😢
Jaguar ILike ye but the beee suffer more cuz they die and we just get a lil bump or an allergic reaction which can be fixed with medication
With a stinger
@@LucyKohm i mean we literally just either accidentally or purposely destroyed its home so i think we should have more than a bump
🐛
**turns into a spider**
🕷
**then a bee**
🐝
**and now a... LADYBUG!!!
Everyone: honey
Me, an intellectual: *bee juice*
Bee puke to be more exact
Bee poop
Intellectuals:
Non-intellectuals: I’m an intellectual
Ground up bees
Bee spit
They are so amazing ❤️🐝
Bees are really amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Bee: *Has 3 million hairs and on her eyes*
Me: *Cant even stand one eyelash in my eye*
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🚨 Copied Comment alert 🚨
@@tobico99 nuh uh
@Clio Pig you’re a boot ! Did you ever saw a pretry boy like me ?
The "tiny flying teddy bears" made me giggle c:
They're so cute!!!
Great camera work and very informative.
How cute they are actually.
When the bees move the pollen to their back legs, they look like they're dancing
Woww, that's amazing!! I've seen bees with pollen on their back legs before in my garden, but had no idea how they put it there, or how they got it to stay
That's fascinating, thanks for the vid!
You again
They are quite adorable, I must say.
You have made them more adorable through your creativity....
Thanks deep look i got my *braincells back* :D
Meeeeeeeeeee beeeeeeeeeeee toooooooooooo
These bees really give me inspiration to not be lazy
Is amazing how they build their house so great!
Never would have thought I'd find bees so interesting.
Very well done video and a pleasant voice.👍
She protecc
She atacc
But most importantly
*s h e h a s a b r e a d o n h e r b a c c*
Bees:
Wasp: I'm going to hurt everyone nothing more than that
Wasp SUCK
Fun fact: both hornets and wasps also pollinate, just not as well. Wasps and hornets drink a lot of nectar and end up carrying some pollen with them to the next flowers, but they are slick unlike bees so less pollen sticks to them. They actually pollenate even more flowers than bees, just less efficiently
Random Italian Bee:
A pastry, I see?
*Bees are super helpful insects.*
They work hard. Baking pollen desserts and regular honey desserts is life for the bee :-)
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We must respect bees there the ones that keep us alive
I'm gonna cry. I love bees do much!
Thanks for this! I very much enjoyed!
Not first, not second... But true fan. Loving you guy work. Keep it up :))))
This is right
You can still be 429th
(I hope someone gets the reference)
Kind of an analogy for the winery: hairy, bulky workers who run left and right between plants to pack goods into pockets, clumsily carrying it back and tramping it into the container, taking sweetest stuff for wine and leaving secondary stuff to ferment for later uses.
*Huh*
Analogy?
Wut
I love the colours and the cinematography ❤
Best architecture! They make the holes hexagonal so that more honey can be stored 😍. They don't make it circular or triangular. The geometry of this shape uses the least amount of material to hold the most weight.
When a Channel with less than 1m Sub taught me in 4mins better than school...
Tbh your channel is So underrated....
900k subscribers and you say they are underrated
@@nguyentrunghieu5757 they deserve at least 9m or higher
I LOVE BEES SO FREAKING MUCH
Bee is soo fluffy. Loves it
they look so cute!
I will say it again: I love the music, the 'small worlds', your voice Amy... and the warm
kid-like happiness I feel watching your videos guys. Thank you!
A new Deep Look video! Great job guys!
According to all known laws of aviation,
There's is no way a bee should be able to fly
The bee of course flys anyway
@@Lightning-597because bees don't care what humans think is impossible
Yellow black Yellow black Yellow black Yellow black
Ooh, black and yellow, shake it up a little
I find bees so adorable 🐝
Honey bees are my favorite insect! This was a great up close and deep look!
0:22 You sure that cute little Bee preps for Work and isn't just styling herself to look even cuter now that a Camera is on her^^
They are soo cute!
Oh my gosh so amazing! Thank you!!!
Honeybees are so cute ❤️
cute lil' fuzzy body and stripes 😆
I admire them from a distance, i love them, but i respect thier space, or ill get stung and noone likes that :/
At this point, I wish I could pet one.
@@Orokin31 Bees won't do anything if you approach them non-hectically and don't hurt one of them.
honeybees doesn't have stripes
i think
Bzzzzz 6w6
Such an awesome and educational episode! Really enjoyed this one. Great work as always to everyone at Deep Look!
The way she just wipes the pollen off so cute 😍🥰
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Bees are so hardworking
Awesome presentation! As a new bee keeper starting out, I got so much from this, thank you :)
The channel has been vastly improved with the addition of yet more bees!
Best bees 🐝 video ever .. you can’t find videos to go into bee pollen details
Thanks for the wonderful footage and knowledge. I am learning so much .
I really like your show. Been following it for over two years now :) magnifficent images with a well written narrative. Keep up the good work.
And greetings from Germany ;)
Pollen patty tastes SSSOOO good! and quality pollen stirred into good yogurt and left for 30 minutes for the juices to soak into it and moisten the pollen is amazing. just remember that pollen tastes like the flowers that it's made from smell, so if you get alfalfa pollen, it's going to taste like alfalfa smells!
where did a bee get internet?
Awesome, awesome video. Excellent narration and camera work.
slight tingling in the back of my head was freakimg me out during this vid