Do bees pee?

Bees do not pee.
The uric acid that normally comes out in our pee is combined with the solid material in bee poop. As a side note, a bee's rectum is capable of absorbing about 90% of all water remaining in waste material. Therefore, there really is no need for a liquid excretion.
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Does a bee urinate?

While honey bees do drink water, they need to hold as much of the liquid in their bodies as possible to avoid drying out. As such, they do not urinate. However, bees do release liquid waste in the form of uric acid.
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Can bees fart?

Yes, bees can fart just like humans! Honeybees ingest pollen which is passed down into their honey stomachs and middle gut to be digested. Digested matter travels to the hindgut to be expelled as excrement, any air present in the fecal matter at the time of expulsion will become a bee fart.
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Do bees poop?

Yes, honey bees poop, and the activity of bees pooping has been observed by scientists, beekeepers and nature watchers for a variety of bee species.
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Do bees squirt liquid?

Bumblebees do not technically release urine but get rid of the insect version of wee – a liquid waste called uric acid. It is formed in their malpighian tubules – the insect of kidneys – where it is mixed with other waste products before being expelled from the body.
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Do bees have Buttholes?

The rectum acts like our large intestine and is the bees primary location of water absorption for the gut after digestion and nutrient absorption. The exit of the digestive system, used to excrete food waste (poop) while in flight. Also called "sting" is used to puncture the skin and pump venom into the wound.
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Do bees poop or pee?

Bees do not pee.

The uric acid that normally comes out in our pee is combined with the solid material in bee poop. As a side note, a bee's rectum is capable of absorbing about 90% of all water remaining in waste material. Therefore, there really is no need for a liquid excretion.
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Is honey just bee vomit?

Technically speaking, honey is not bee vomit. The nectar travels down a valve into an expandable pouch called the crop where it is kept for a short period of time until it is transferred to a receiving bee back at the hive.
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Is honey poop or vomit?

No, honey is not bee poop, spit or vomit. This common misconception is due to the bee's use of its honey stomach (an expandable pouch) used to store nectar while it's transported back to the hive. The honey stomach mixes two enzymes with the nectar which begins the honey production process.
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What is bee vomit?

It's bee vomit from its special storage organ not used for digesting its food, but instead for turning nectar into honey. Then it regurgitates, aka vomits, this material back up its esophagus, part of its digestive system, back out of its mouth, where digestion began.
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Do bees poop in honey?

No – honey is not bee poop, spit or vomit. Honey is made from nectar by reducing the moisture content after it is carried back to the hive. While bees store the nectar inside their honey stomachs, the nectar is not vomited or pooped out before it is turned into honey – not technically, at least.
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Do spiders fart?

Since the stercoral sac contains bacteria, which helps break down the spider's food, it seems likely that gas is produced during this process, and therefore there is certainly the possibility that spiders do fart.
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Is honey made from a bees butt?

Nothing from the bee's digesting stomach or the bee's intestines can return to the honey stomach. When the bee enters her hive, the contents of the honey stomach—and only the honey stomach—are transferred to other bees through trophallaxis before it is ultimately stored in the comb.
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Do spiders pee?

Spiders don't produce urine like we do, but produce uric acid, which doesn't dissolve in water and is a near-solid. Spiders have this alternate form of waste because they can't afford to lose as much water as we do.
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What color is bee poop?

Yes, bees poop and with the 2019 super bloom upon us, you'll find these yellow-gold dots on pretty much everything. These droppings are incredibly sticky and difficult to remove, even a regular scrub can leave them perfectly intact. They are often round and yellow or, if on a windshield, long and yellow.
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Can Wasps pee?

Wasps poo and pee at the same time. Like insects, they release both poo and pee at the same time. The result is a yellow substance that is released from beneath the abdomen. Wasps have a healthy digestive tract.
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Why do vegans not eat honey?

For some vegans, this extends to honey, because it is produced from the labor of bees. Honey-avoiding vegans believe that exploiting the labor of bees and then harvesting their energy source is immoral — and they point out that large-scale beekeeping operations can harm or kill bees.
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Can vegans eat honey?

Vegans try to avoid or minimize all forms of animal exploitation, including that of bees. As a result, most vegans exclude honey from their diets.
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What is bee spit called?

The honey stomach is similar to a crop and holds the nectar until the bee returns to the hive. At the hive the nectar is regurgitated back to the mouth (thus the term "bee spit") and given to another worker bee within the hive.
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Does bees poop wax?

Young honeybees are in charge of producing the wax. Beneath their “bellies,” the young honeybees have four special glands that excrete liquid wax, the way that we humans sweat.
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What comes out of a bees bum?

Honey bee workers will raise their abdomens in the air to expose a gland called their Nasonov gland. An scent attractive to other bees is released by this gland. The bees will fan their wings while raising their bottoms, to disperse and spread the Nasonov scent.
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Do bees have saliva?

The glands are large in size (hypertrophied) in nurse bees but become generated in foragers. There is also a pair of head salivary glands inside the head. The glands produce saliva which is mixed with wax scales to change the physical property of wax.
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Is honey bee sperm?

Hopkins is the apiary and lab manager of Washington State University's Apiary Program, and the “stuff” he's referring to is honey bee semen. Yes, semen. Hopkins spends a lot of his time visiting beekeepers and collecting seminal fluid from drones, the male honey bees that exist primarily to impregnate queen bees.
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How does bee poop look like?

Bee feces often appear as small yellow blobs that are sticky. Other times, the wastes look like small mustard yellow strings or a splats. The shape of bee excrement depends on the angle of impact.
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Does anything not poop?

Are there any animals that don't poop? As a matter of fact yes there are: Tardigrades - These little alien-like critters only excrete when they molt. So any "fecal" matter produced it not really pooped out as we would really describe it.
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