Honey bees, especially in a nectar dearth, find ripe fruit very much to their liking. They have been known to feast on plums, peaches, grapes, apples, figs, and pears.

PSA-Do not ever feed bees the juice from cut open fruit! by feeding them watermelon and other kinds of fruit. Please do not cut open watermelon, peaches, pineapples or any other kind of fruit and feed it to bees.

Honey is made from nectar found inside flowers, but it's a little more complicated than that! It takes some important steps to get to the delicious honey we all enjoy. Bees feed on tiny drops of nectar found in each flower, slurping it out with their long tongues.

Should you feed bees watermelon? Mary Reed, the chief apiary inspector for the Texas Apiary Inspection Service, said giving watermelon to bees isn't something she'd recommend, as it could lead to the spread of disease among the bees.