The Hard Work Inside Every Spoonful

Bees make honey from flower nectar, which starts out thin and watery.

Back at the hive, they add enzymes and fan the nectar with their wings until most of the water evaporates.

It is slow work. A single worker bee makes only around one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her whole life.

So every jar is the result of thousands of bees making huge numbers of flower visits.

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