Question

The name 'honey stomach' in bees is applied for
A. Gizzard
B. Pharynx
C. Stomach
D. Crop

Answer 1

Hint: It has something to do with an ant, bee, or other hymenopterous insects, which serves as a reservoir for honeydew and nectar, especially an enlarged honey bee crop in which honey-forming enzymes act on nectar.

Complete answer: The oesophagus stretches near the stomach into a crop, or honey stomach, in stinging ways, which acts as a source for liquids to be regurgitated later. The crop may be substantially distended in honey ant replicates. It contains as much as 75 milligrams’ (0.003 ounces) of honeybee nectar, which can be around one-third of the total weight of the insect. The stomach, or ventriculus, is the greatest part of the digestive system in bees and wasps; it is very small in most ants, solitary wasps, and other types. Two pairs of salivary glands, especially in bees, are well established. In the brain, one pair is located and the other in the thorax. To form a single canal that passes into the pharynx, the ducts leading from them merge. A mass of salivary gland cells in the head near the ocelli are also present in drones and queen bees. Worker bees have one pair of pharyngeal glands that produce food for the young larvae, especially royal jelly. A specialized portion of foregut is the crop often referred to as a honey stomach or honey sack. This is equivalent to a distensible sack. Transporting and storing liquid food is the main feature of the crop (water, nectar, and honeydew). The absorption of water from its lumen is another feature of the crop.
Hence, choice D, i.e., Crop is the correct answer.

Note: Bees have two stomachs - one stomach for eating and the other special stomach is for storing nectar collected from flowers or water so that they can carry it back to their hive. The male bees are called drones in the hive.