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Why do bees make honey?
Bees make honey so they always have food, even on cold days when they can't find flowers.
Bees collect a sweet liquid from flowers called nectar. They carry the nectar to the hive, work on it a little inside their stomachs, and put it into the cells of the honeycomb. Then they flap their wings fast to dry out the water, and what is left is thick, long-lasting honey.
When winter comes and it gets cold, there are no flowers left. The bees can't go outside to find food. That is when the honey they stored up in summer feeds them, so they can all stay alive together in the hive.
Honey is really the bees' own winter food store. When we eat honey, we are actually sharing this food that the bees worked hard to make.
Quick facts
- Bees make honey from the nectar they collect from flowers.
- They flap their wings to dry out the water in nectar, leaving honey behind.
- Honey is kept safe in beeswax cells called a honeycomb.
- Bees eat honey in winter because they can't find flowers then.
- Thousands of bees work together in one hive.
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Where this comes from
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1 tr.wikipedia.org 85/100Honey - Wikipedia
A reliable encyclopedia page that explains what honey is and how it is made.
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2 tr.wikipedia.org 85/100Honeybee - Wikipedia
Explains how honeybees live and how a hive is organized.
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