When i was around 8-9 my friends showed me these flowers and when they hadnt bloomed you twisted it from the bottom and pulled through the inner part and sucked it they said it was honey and that when the flower bloomed the bees took it all.
i thought this was true for over a year until my mum corrected me
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- i used to think honey came from smashed up bees— Sabrina
My friend used to believe that bees made honey and jam.
— julia- I used to believe that honey was made from bees' pee when they drank too much water.Anon
- when i was a kid i belived that butter came from butterflys(like honey comes from bees)lol!!!— becky
- When I asked my dad how bees collect honey he told me that they carry around little tiny buckets. — Shana
- My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.— Linda