Question for all you fastidious readers: Do you eat honey? We all learned that bees gather nectar and carry it back to their hive. How do they carry it? What's that? You said that they carry the nectar in special places on their hind legs? No, that's where they carry pollen back to the hive. You weren't listening very well when your teacher or the TV ed program covered this.
OK, let's start over. What do the bees do with the nectar from the flowers? Right, they swallow it. They place it in cells in the honeycomb in the hive. Here the water evaporates to a certain level and then the cell is capped with beeswax. Later, it is eaten by the bees.
WHAT? You mean that honey is concentrated bee vomit?! I did not say that; you said it. I like honey. Whatever you want to call it will not change my liking honey. So there.
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