Workers collect pollen from flowers and take it back to the colony in pollen baskets on their hind legs. The nectar from flowers is carried in a special part of its stomach. Enzymes are added during the digestive process and the nectar becomes honey. It is then later regurgitated into the cells of the comb within the hive. When the honey is thick and dry, the bees cap the cells with wax to preserve it.
Honey is a bee's throw-up.
I might think twice before I put honey on my toast. The next time I see a bee, I will know that it probably is not out to drive me crazy but rather it is busy doing its very important job for our ecosystem. Bees do have many enemies even though it may not seem that way. Animals such as bears and Argentine ants may destroy a hive in search of honey. By eating the wax in a honeycomb of a weak colony, the wax moth may also ruin it.