Life in a Hive
Worker bees fill the cells with honey prior to capping them with wax.
© Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Making Honey
Making honey is an important task for worker bees. They feed it to the developing larvae and also need it as a food source over the winter. The work involved in gathering nectar from flowers and transforming it into honey back in the hive requires that all the worker bees in a colony work together.
The honey made by bees is, of course, also enjoyed by people, as well as by other animals and insects.
