How do bees make honey?

How can we see how bees make honey?

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• stick our heads in the hive

• ask the bees

• wear protective clothing and use tiny cameras

• put the bees in a see-through hive

What is the sugar water inside a flower called?

• nectar

• fruit juice

• pollen

• honey

What do the bees do with the nectar after it goes into their "honey stomachs"?

• they drink it

• it becomes honey in their stomachs

• they wait for it to turn into honey and then spit it out

• they spit it out and pass it back and forth with other bees

Why do bees make honey?

• to feed humans

• to pollinate flowers

• to feed their babies

• to feed themselves

Why are the bees passing their spit back and forth?

• to get more enzymes to help make the honey

• to trade the different flavors of nectar

• to feed each other