HONEY Honeybees make so much honey that beekeepers can take some without starving the bees
5 Honeybees Everyone knows the honeybee It is one of our most familiar insects Honeybees buzzing around flower blossoms are common sights and sounds Everyone knows about the honey that honeybees make too It is sweet and sticky Honeybees make honey as food for themselves But they make more than enough Beekeepers take some of the bees honey for people to eat Honeybees make honey from nectar Nectar is a sweet liquid made by flowers Honeybees suck nectar from the flowers A honeybee has a long tongue that works like a straw The bees store nectar in their stomachs There it is changed into sugars
Back at their home called a hive worker bees spit up the watery nectar The water slowly evaporates or becomes part of the air What remains is honey A honeybee uses a strawlike tongue to sip nectar from flowers
Wild honeybees swarm over the honeycomb sections of their hive The bees store the honey in the honeycomb they have made in the hive The honeycomb is full of little storage cells
