How do bees make honey?
Bee Bakery Secrets
How do bees make honey?
You spread honey on your toast — golden, sweet, somehow the perfect thing. But honey doesn't grow on trees. It doesn't come from a factory. It comes from bees, who are basically running the world's tiniest, most obsessive bakery. And the recipe? Weird, brilliant, and kind of gross.
It starts with a forager bee zooming out to find flowers. She's looking for nectar — a sugary liquid hidden inside the bloom, the flower's bribe to get pollinated. When she finds a good flower, she sucks the nectar up through her tongue like a straw and stores it in a special stomach called a honey stomach. Not her regular stomach. A second one. Just for nectar.
