CHRS: IBMPC 2 CODEPAGE: 437 MSGID: 240:244/116 570ce1aa REPLY: 240:44/0 f4dd632b PID: FDAPX/w 1.12a UnReg(560) 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 --- * Origin: Kent Beekeeper Beenet Point (240:244/116)