Jiangkun Wei News Today

A recent study by researchers from China, Germany, and the United States has revealed that honey bees can switch between two different feeding mechanisms, namely suction and lapping, to efficiently extract nectar from flowers of various sizes and sugar concentrations.

The hydrophobic nature makes the tongue more flexible, which is useful when foraging from sources with differing shapes

A honeybee’s tongue, which is densely covered in hairs, is used to lap up nectar and other liquids. Scientists recently reported that those hairs are water repellent.