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Where does honey come from?
Honey Formation
It comes from the hard work of honey bees, foraging (search widely for food or provisions) bees suck a sugary juice called nectar from flowers with their long tube-like tongues, then swallow it and store it in the crop, a special type of stomach which comes before the actual digestive system stomach. This nectar does not enter the bee's digestive system.
When honeybees return to the hive, it passes the nectar to another bee by regurgitating (the action of bringing swallowed food up again to the mouth) the liquid into the other bee's mouth. This regurgitation process is repeated until the partially digested nectar is finally deposited into the hexagonal wax cells within the hive.
After that, to make the honey less viscous, bees begin fanning the hive with their wings, which removes excess water from their honey and accelerates the evaporation process.
When most of the water has evaporated, the bee seals the comb with a secretion of liquid from its abdomen, which eventually hardens into beeswax.
Honey is fed to larvae and serves as a perfect food source for bees in cold winter months.
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