Honey bees collect nectar (a sweet watery liquid produced by flowers) using their long tongue called a proboscis. Their proboscis is covered in little hairs to help lap up the watery nectar from deep down inside the flowers. The bees store the nectar in a special sac-like stomach called the honey stomach to carry it back to the hive.  The nectar is then processed by other bees in the hive into honey.

This super cute honey bees wall hanging shows 2 busy worker bees heading back to the hive after having collected nectar from the nearby Millefiori flowers! It measures 10 cm x 10 cm and hangs on a green saddlestitch ribbon with a contrasting coloured green wooden drum bead. The total length of the wall hanging including the ribbon is approximately 22 cm. Although similar each one is never identical due to the fact that all the glass is hand cut, different shapes of stringer grass/different colours of Millefiori flower beads have been used as well as a random colour mix of medrium glass frit glass. This makes each Hive of Activity wall hanging unique.

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