What Bees Eat Children are most likely to encounter honey bees that are feeding at flowers or foraging . Worker bees gather both pollen and nectar from flowers to feed to the larvae and other members of the colony. Nectar is the sweet fluid produced by flowers to attract bees and other insects, birds and mammals.
Worker bees drink the nectar and store it in a pouch-like structure called the crop.
The house bees mix the nectar with enzymes and deposit it into a cell where it remains exposed to air for a time to allow some of the water to evaporate. The bees help the process along by fanning the open cells with their wings. The cell containing the resulting honey is later capped with beeswax and kept for future use. Honey bees have lots of little hairs on their body. Even their eyes have hairs.