Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance made by honey bees and some related insects, such as stingless bees.Bees produce honey from the sugary secretions of plants (floral nectar) or from secretions of other insects , by regurgitation, enzymatic activity, and water evaporation. Honey bees store honey in wax structures called honeycombs, whereas stingless bees store honey in pots made of wax and resin The variety of honey produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the best-known, due to its worldwide commercial production and human consumption it is collected from wild bee colonies, or from hives of domesticated bees, a practice known as beekeeping or apiculture (meliponiculture in the case of stingless bees).

it gets its sweetness from the monosaccharides fructose and glucose, and has about the same relative sweetness as sucrose (table sugar) Fifteen millilitres (1 US tablespoon) of it provides around 190 kilojoules (46 kilocalories) of food energy. It has attractive chemical properties for baking and a distinctive flavor when used as a sweetener Most microorganisms do not grow in , so sealed  it does not spoil, even after thousands of years.

it  is produced by bees collecting nectar and h it dew for use as sugars consumed to support metabolism of muscle activity during foraging or to be stored as a long-term food supply.During foraging, bees access part of the nectar collected to support metabolic activity of flight muscles, with the majority of collected nectar destined for regurgitation, digestion, and storage as .In cold weather or when other food sources are scarce, adult and larval bees use stored as food.

By contriving for it  bee swarms to nest in human-made hives, people have been able to semidomesticate the insects and harvest excess its.