Honey Beehive

Honey

Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids. This refinement takes place both within individual bees, through regurgitation and enzymatic activity, and during storage in the hive, through water evaporation that concentrates the honey's sugars until it is thick and viscous.

Beehive

A beehive is an enclosed structure in which honey bees raise their young and produce honey as part of their seasonal cycle. Although the word beehive is used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes nest from hive. Nest is used to discuss colonies that house themselves in natural or artificial cavities or in structures that are hanging and exposed. The term hive is used to describe a man made structure created to house a honey bee colony. While species of Apis live in colonies, the western and eastern honey bees are the main species kept in artificial beehives.

honey

Noun

1. A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
2. A variety of this substance.

Adjective

1. Involving or resembling honey.
2. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.

beehive

Noun

1. A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.
2. Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.

Verb

1. To fill (a place) with busy activity.
2. To style the hair in a hive-shaped or bouffant form.