honey
...from their hive to find the flowers. Once they have found the flowers, they fly back to hive to tell the worker bees where to find the flowers. This is done in a very interesting way. The scouting bee does what is called a figure eight waggle dance to inform the worker bees where they can locate the flowers. The next step the bees take to make their honey is for the hive to send out the worker bees to start collecting the nectar from the flowers. You have heard of the term “working like a busy bee.” That’s exactly what a bee is, busy. A single bee will land on over 100 flowers to collect as much nectar as its stomach can hold before it flies back to the hive. Bees will travel 55,000 miles to gather enough nectar just to make one pound of honey. The last step is to take the nectar the bees have collected and turn it into honey. The bees aren’t really making a new product but improving upon what the flowers have already made. The bee’s make they honey by regurgitating the nectar over and over until they dehydrate it. Not all honey is the same. There are more than 300 types of honey that bees make in th...