Noun

Singular honey

Plural countable and uncountable; plural honeys

honey (countable and uncountable; plural honeys)

  1. (uncountable) A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees; (countable) a variety of this substance.
  2. A thing likened to honey for its sweetness, desirability, etc.
    1595 Shakespeare, William, Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3, lines 91-93:
    • O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."
  3. A term of affection.
    Honey, would you take out the trash?
  4. (informal, countable) An attractive woman
    Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
  5. (color/colour) A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
    honey colour:

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Sat Feb 6 00:47:48 2010

Honey () is a sweet food made by certain insects using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referred to and is the type of honey collected by beekeepers and consumed by humans. Honey produced by other bees and insects has distinctly different properties.

Honey bees form nectar into honey by a process of regurgitation and store it as a food source in wax honeycombs inside the beehive. Beekeeping practices encourage overproduction of honey so that the excess can be taken without endangering the bee colony.

Honey gets its sweetness from the monosaccharides fructose and glucose and has approximately the same relative sweetness as that of granulated sugar (74% of the sweetness of sucrose, a disaccharide). It has attractive chemical properties for baking, and a distinctive flavor which leads some people to prefer it over sugar and other sweeteners. Most micro-organisms do not grow in honey because of its low water activity of 0.6. However, honey sometimes contains dormant endospores of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which can be dangerous to infants as the endospores can transform into toxin-producing bacteria in the infant's immature intestinal tract, leading to illness and even death (see Potential health hazards below).

Honey has a long history as a comestible and is used in various foods and beverages as a sweetener and flavoring. It also has a role in religion and symbolism. Flavors of honey vary based on the nectar source, and various types and grades of honey are available. It is also used in various medicinal traditions to treat ailments. The study of pollens and spores in raw honey (melissopalynology) can determine floral sources of honey. Because bees carry an electrostatic charge, and can attract other particles, the same techniques of melissopalynology can be used in area environmental studies of radioactive particles, dust, or particulate pollution.

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Mon Feb 8 16:22:04 2010

How important are honey bees to our environment?
Q. It has been said that the honey bee population has decreased alot over the past few years. I have read an article which said that some type of virus may be the reason. Couldn't this play a big role in our environment? Could this be part of the reason why allergies our on the increase among Americans? I'm just not sure exactly how it could affect the pollen counts. Honey bees are seldom seen anymore. And now its dealing with pests such as Yellow Jackets and wasps. Since the population of these two insects is soaring in our area! I would much rather have the honey bees!
Asked by Puma - Fri Oct 5 17:25:30 2007 - - 8 Answers - 1 Comments

A. declines in the bee populations are going to change the flora A parasitic mite ,changes in temperatures,disease and killer bees, also the spraying for mosquitos kills other insects in advertedly, and the bee keepers moving the hives around and disinfecting the hives has also very bad effects ,we cannot interfere with Nature and NOT expect anything to happen 90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out. In the Netherlands bee diversity is down 80 percent in the sites researched, and that "bee species are declining or have become extinct in Britain." the numbers of wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent. If bees continue to die off so would the crops they support and with… [cont.]
Answered by Byderule Permaculture - Fri Oct 5 17:37:07 2007

How far do honey bees fly away from there home when they are out to pollinate and collect nectar?
Q. I've seen honey bees at my schoo and one at my houseso I wanted to know.
Asked by Connor B - Sun Jun 1 13:17:55 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Usually no more than one and a half miles (2.5 km), though they can travel further if they need to. This is why, when beekeepers move hives, they have to move them at least three miles (5km), Any less than that, and the bees that go foraging might recognize the landmarks and go back to their old home by mistake.
Answered by Antiphony - Tue Jun 3 20:42:01 2008

How can you get honey bees out of a house wall without harming them?
Q. I am rehabbing an old house and have discovered there is a well-established hive of honey bees in a wall. Local beekeepers don't want any part of trying to get them out. I would rather not call an exterminator to do the job, as I would rather not harm the bees. I would also rather not get stung removing them. I'm pretty sure they are honeybees, as I can smell the honey. Its looking like extermination is the only option. The wall is to be removed, but tearing it out sounds difficult with the bees still there.
Asked by Dennis C - Sun Aug 3 12:34:27 2008 - - 5 Answers - 2 Comments

A. I don't know where you are but if you were close, in NC or SC, i would love to get them. Go to beemaster.com and beesource.com and put a post on their sites. Beekeepers from all over the country and around the world are always on there and you should have many offers to come get them. With the wall being torn out anyway this would be an ideal capture. Good luck and thanks for not wanting to immediatly kill them before checking around.
Answered by beekybuzzard - Tue Aug 5 21:22:47 2008

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