Why cannot you store up honey, as she does?

They are minute, stingless bees, which store up honey and live in colonies often of immense extent.

They have never learned to store up honey, and every winter many of them freeze to death in their elegant paper houses.

Stone vases stood around in the grotto, and there bees had stored up honey.

"If wasps don't store up honey for the winter, what do they live upon when there are no insects about?"