Mr. Barrera: Yesterday, some of you asked me where honey comes from. The answer is a busy team of honeybees, and making honey takes a lot of work.

Mr. Barrera: First, worker bees fly from flower to flower and sip a sweet liquid called nectar. They store it in a special part of their body called a honey stomach. When a bee's honey stomach is full, it flies back to the hive.

Mr. Barrera: Inside the hive, the bee passes the nectar to other bees. They put it into tiny wax cells, the little six-sided rooms of the honeycomb. At first, the nectar is thin and watery. So the bees fan their wings over it, again and again, to dry it out. Slowly, the nectar turns thick and sticky. Now it is honey.

Mr. Barrera: Last, the bees cover each cell with a lid of wax to keep the honey fresh. They will eat it in the winter, when there are no flowers.

Mr. Barrera: Here is a surprising fact. In its whole life, one honeybee makes only about one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey. So the next time you eat honey, think about how many bees it took!