Name: 蜜蜂如何釀蜜？ (How do bees make honey?)
Uploaded: 2025-11-05T14:03:47.000Z
Duration: 5 min 50 s

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Honey, that sweet, delicious stuff that just tastes so good.

蜂蜜，那種甜甜的、美味的、吃起來超讚的東西。

There's nothing quite like honey, is there?

蜂蜜真的是無可取代的美味，對吧？

Syrup is similar in color, and it's sweet, but it tastes different.

糖漿顏色很像，也很甜，但味道就不一樣了。

Someone named Linda has a question about honey.

有位叫做琳達的朋友有個關於蜂蜜的問題。

The fact that bees make honey is something most of us hear about, but

蜜蜂做蜂蜜這件事，我們大多數人都聽過，

it's not something most of us have actually seen for ourselves.

So for a lot of people, including adults I talk to, the whole thing is kind of fuzzy, maybe a little confusing, even.

所以很多人，包括我訪談過的成年人，對這件事都模模糊糊的，甚至有點搞不清楚。

Something about flowers, and then they come back to a hive and, well, something happens.

好像跟花有關，然後牠們回到蜂巢，接著就發生了什麼事。

What is it that bees are doing in that hive?

牠們在蜂巢裡到底在做什麼呢？

We can't just pop our heads in there and check it out.

我們不能就這樣把頭伸進去看看。

They really wouldn't be happy about that if we did.

如果我們這樣做，牠們肯定不會高興。

But there is a way to get inside a beehive and see what's going on.

但確實有個方法可以進到蜂巢裡面，看看裡面在發生什麼。

How could we find out what's going on inside a beehive?

我們要怎麼知道蜂巢裡面發生了什麼事呢？

Now would be a good time to pause the video and discuss.

現在是個暫停影片來討論的好時機。

Well, one possibility might be to wear a bee suit where you can't get stung, and

嗯，一種可能性是穿上蜜蜂防護衣，這樣就不會被螫到，然後

then use tiny lenses and cameras to look inside the hive.

然後用小型的鏡頭和攝影機來觀察蜂巢內部。

In fact, even easier than that, many bees are willing to live in hives constructed by people.

事實上，比這還簡單，很多蜜蜂都願意住在人類建造的蜂巢裡。

So if you make clear sides, you can actually watch what they're doing.

所以如果你製作透明的側邊，你就可以實際觀察牠們在做什麼。

By creating these see through hives, scientists have been able to carefully observe what bees do and have unlocked the secret of how bees make all that sweet, delicious honey.

透過建造這些透明的蜂巢，科學家們能夠仔細觀察蜜蜂的行為，並解開了蜜蜂如何製造出所有這些甜美、美味的蜂蜜的祕密。

If you watch a hive, you'll see bees coming and going.

如果你觀察蜂巢，你會看到蜜蜂來來去去。

You might know that bees are very busy flying around from flower to flower, then coming back to the hive.

你可能知道蜜蜂非常忙碌地在花朵間飛來飛去，然後回到蜂巢。

You'll see it has a little tongue right there.

你會看到牠那裡有一根小小的舌頭。

Here's another video where you can really see the tongue.

這裡有另一個影片，你可以清楚看到牠的舌頭。

Inside of every flower is a tiny pool of sugar water that's made by the plant.

每朵花裡面都有植物製造的一小池糖水。

It's such a tiny amount to us, it's hard to even notice.

對我們來說，這份量小到幾乎注意不到。

But on flowers like this one called honeysuckle, you can actually taste it.

但在像這種叫做金銀花的تمر，你其實可以嚐到牠的味道。

At this point, it's clear, it's very runny and only just a tiny bit sweet.

這時候，它是清澈的、非常稀，而且只有一點點甜。

But it turns out that bees aren't slurping it because they're thirsty.

但結果發現，蜜蜂並不是因為口渴才吸食牠的。

When they do this, the nectar goes into a special honey stomach for storage.

牠們這樣做的時候，花蜜會進入一個特別的蜜囊儲存。

Once a bee gets back to the hive, things start to get a little weird.

蜜蜂回到蜂巢後，事情就開始有點奇怪了。

They spit it out again and pass it to other bees who spit it out and in turn pass it to other bees.

牠們會再吐出來，傳給其他蜜蜂，其他蜜蜂再吐出來，然後又傳給其他蜜蜂。

This part might seem really gross, and scientists were confused by it at first.

這部分聽起來可能有點噁心，科學家一開始也對此感到困惑。

But by studying the bodies of bees, scientists were able to figure out that inside the honey stomach, bees have a special liquid called an enzyme that, as it mixes with the nectar, makes it thicker and stickier, more and more like honey.

但透過研究蜜蜂的身體，科學家們發現，在蜜囊裡，蜜蜂有一種特殊的液體叫做酵素，當它與花蜜混合時，會讓花蜜變得越來越濃稠、越來越黏，越來越像蜂蜜。

So by passing it back and forth like that, bees are adding more and more enzyme to the nectar.

所以牠們這樣來回傳遞，就是在為花蜜添加越來越多的酵素。

這就是將花蜜變成蜂蜜的過程。

Once they've done this enough times, they store the liquid honey into little containers they make out of wax.

當牠們這樣重複足夠多次後，就會把這種液體蜂蜜儲存在牠們用蜂蠟做成的小容器裡。

They make all of this honey to feed their babies.

牠們做這麼多蜂蜜，是為了餵牠們的小寶寶。

For that reason, it might seem mean of us to take honey away from them, but

這樣想的話，我們把蜂蜜拿走好像有點壞，但是

almost all of the honey that gets sold in stores doesn't come from wild bees.

幾乎所有在商店裡賣的蜂蜜，都不是來自野生的蜜蜂。

相反地，人們會在農場裡飼養蜜蜂。

Just like other farm animals, the bees on farms make much more honey than their babies need.

就像其他的農場動物一樣，農場裡的蜜蜂做的蜂蜜，遠遠超過牠們寶寶的需求。

So farmers collect that extra honey and sell it to people.

所以農夫就會收集這些多餘的蜂蜜，賣給人們。

So, in summary, bees make honey by collecting a sugary water called nectar from flowers and then allowing that nectar to mix with a special substance inside one of their stomachs.

總結一下，蜜蜂製造蜂蜜的方法是，從花朵收集一種叫做花蜜的糖水，然後讓這種花蜜與牠們胃裡的一種特殊物質混合。

Now for the next episode, I reached into my question jar and picked out three questions submitted to me that I'm thinking about answering.

接下來這一集，我從我的問題罐裡抓了三個我正在考慮回答的問題。

When this video is done playing, you'll get to vote on one you can choose from.

這支影片播完後，你就可以投票選一個你喜歡的。

How do you know if a mushroom is poisonous or not?

So submit your vote when the video is over.

所以影片結束後，記得投下你的一票喔。

我想要聽聽所有正在收看節目的你們的意見。