What do honey bees eat?

Question

I caught a honey bee today. I named it Fred. What should I feed it to keep it alive.

Answer 1

Have honey available and water droplets present for your bee.  That is all you need.

Answer 2

You cannot keep it alive.  Bees feed each other royal jelly.  It will die without the companionship of other bees in the hive.  

Answer 3

let it go.  the only successful people raising bees are professional bee keepers and right now with colony colapse disease they are dying out too.

Answer 4

They feed the queen until she gets fat then they cook her and pour honey on her to make it sweet.

just kidding they eat nectar.

Answer 5

Glazed ham.....

Honey bees eat honey, thats whjy they make it. Unless its a drone, that bee is a female. Let it go, they need to be in their colony.

Answer 6

Nectar - from fresh flowers.

Unless you can provide 30+ fresh flowers that have nectar available - then let it go.

Honey bees are in decline due to systemic pesticides. I'm in Scotland UK, and have not seen one single honeybee this year !!!

You may be looking at an endangered species.!!  

Answer 7

They eat pollen from flowers.  I hear they can be particular in which flowers they like better, so I would give it a variety.  Bees are social insects, though, and do not do well alone.  You should release it.  BTW, all worker bees are female.

Answer 8

Let it go, it'll be much better off in the wild.