How Bees Make Honey

Honey starts as NECTAR — a sweet liquid that flowers produce to attract pollinators. A forager bee lands on a flower and uses her long, straw-like tongue called a PROBOSCIS to suck up the nectar. She stores the nectar in a special second stomach called the HONEY STOMACH (it is separate from her food stomach!). A forager visits 50 to 100 flowers on each trip. When her honey stomach is full, she flies back to the hive. It takes nectar from about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey!