Every flower contains a drop of sweet juice, or nectar. But when it is cold or dry, plants do not produce flowers. To make just one pound of honey, bees must fly a totao of 55,000 miles between their hive and flowers. When bees find blossoms, they eat pollen and nectar from flowers. But they do not leave the hive on the day it is cloudy, rainy, or cold. If bees cannot visit flowers, they must live on stored food. This is why bees store honey in a honeycomb. A single worker bee makes about a half-tea spoon of honey in her lifetime. That is not even enough honey to spread on a muffin! Why do bees make honey?