Roman law declared that bees were the property of the man who placed them in a hive, not the person who owned the land. As bees move over flowers, pollen sticks to their bodies and is transferred to the next flowers visited, to pollinate seeds. Many flowering plants or trees depend upon insect pollination before fruit or seeds will form. One bee can pollinate 18000 flowers per day. Beekeepers move hives several times a year so bees can visit seasonal nectar sources or pollinate crops.
Flowers provide nectar to encourage pollination.
Once this has been achieved, nectar supply stops. The world faces continual famines without adequate pollination of trees and agricultural crops. Raw nectar is collected from flowers and mixed with secretions from glands and stored in cells. Moisture is gradually removed by air circulated by fanning and by being continually moved from cell to cell. Honey originates from vegetation.