"Bees collect nectar from flowers which is very dilute," Marla Spivak, professor of entomology at the University of Minnesota and leader of the Spivak Honey Bee Lab, told Live Science in an email.

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The nectar passes from bee to bee in the colony, mixing with more and more bee saliva. Eventually, when it’s almost honey, a bee spits the thick liquid into a beeswax cell. Then the bees turn ...

A single colony of bees can have 60,000 bees in it. Together, they can visit up to 50 million flowers each day to collect pollen and nectar. They’re not called ‘busy bees’ for nothing!

A worker bee eats a meal of honey, the colony's chief source of nourishment. Home sweet home Bees do not create honey; they are actually improving upon a plant product, nectar.