How do bees make honey?

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   Flowers make a sweet juice called nectar. Bees sip it up and carry it home to the hive. There they turn it into honey and keep it in little wax cupboards, so they have food for winter.

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   Why do bees change the nectar?

   Nectar is runny, and runny nectar can go bad, like old juice. So the bees flap their wings super fast over it, and the extra water dries away. Once it's thick and sticky, it's honey. Honey hardly ever goes bad, so it stays good for a very long time.

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