Foraging honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) obtain the fundamental resources of the colony: pollen, nectar, propolis, and water. While nectar and pollen are the most apparent resources that bees need to collect, water is also critical to the colony. It is used for drinking, dilution of honey used as larval food, humidity regulation, and thermoregulation within the hive. The provisioning of manmade water stations throughout apiaries has long been practiced, and beekeepers have observed extreme preferences in a honey bee’s water source selection; bees tend to favor water from objectionable water sources (e.g., puddles on cow dung or gutters full of decaying matter) over clean, fresh water. Numerous online beekeeping blogs and forums report honey bees visiting moss to collect water, however, there is no current research exploring this behavior. The objectives of this study are to 1) identify the preferences of water-collecting foragers presented with a choice of different water stations (comprised of either inorganic sponges or one of four local moss species: Sphagnum palustre L., Thuidium delicatulum Hedw., Aulacomnium palustre Hedw.,or Polytrichum commune Hedw.), 2) determine the water-holding capacity of the sponges and mosses, and 3) analyze the water from each treatment for cations and anions to determine if honey bees are selecting water sources for essential micronutrients.