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Hi Stan,
Your information is in part right, there is perhaps some omission. Bees collect
nectar nectar from flowers, sucrose and some other sugars, water content
varies, some researchers report from 40%-80%. Foraging Bees add invertase to
convert sucrose to fructose and glucose on return journey to hive. Regurgitates
nectar to hive bees who ingest and regurgitate, hold droplets in proboscis and
eventually paste onto cell walls. In each movement water is extracted or
evaporated. I personally would not call nectar thick, it is very aqueous in my
opinion, ripe honey is better described as thick. (dense, viscous)
 
Regards from the Garden of England
 
Peter Hutton
 
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 * Origin: Kent Beekeeper Beenet Point (240:244/116)