Bees collect nectar using their proboscis, which functions like a straw with hairs that conduct nectar via capillary action, serving as their carbohydrate source.

“The other thing they're doing is while they're there, they're taking their proboscus, which is their tongue. Essentially, their tongue, which actually, again, one of these crazy facts. It's actually not a tongue. It's actually It is a tongue. It comes out. It's like a big straw. But again, just to show their sort of natural efficiency. It It actually doesn't They don't suck it up like we would think of a straw. Their proboscus actually has also has hairs on it. And it if think of a think of a dish towel sitting down when you spill some milk and you put your paper paper towel down or something and you and it sort of conducts up the paper towel. That's how they're that's how their proboscus works. They go they put it down and they stick it into the flower and they pull that nectar out and the nectar is their carbohydrate.”