How do Bees Make Honey?

Honey is a sweet food, but only honey bees make honey.

The honey bee collects the nectar from each  flower and sucks  it up with a proboscis  then stores it in a honey stomach.

When the bee  returns to the hive each bee spits out the honey and another bee sucks it up and puts it into a hexagonal cell. Then the bee puts wax over top to keep it in.

A beekeeper uses a knife to get the wax off.  The honey drips into an extractor and spits it into the bottom of the extractor to get out and put into a jar ready to put on our toast.