Honey

Honey is a sweet, viscous substance made by several species of bees, most notably honey bees, who produce and store it to nourish their colonies by gathering and refining the sugary secretions of plants, chiefly floral nectar, or the secretions of other insects such as aphid honeydew. This refinement happens both inside individual bees, through regurgitation and enzymatic activity, and during storage in the hive, through water evaporation that concentrates the honey's sugars until it becomes thick and viscous. Honey bees store the finished honey in the hive's beeswax honeycomb, a structure of hundreds or thousands of hexagonal cells into which the bees regurgitate it, while other honey-producing bee species store the substance in different structures, such as wax pots.