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Honey everyone consumes it

The term “honey” which appeared in the language in the 10th century, comes from the Latin mel. The bee first appeared on Earth about 80 million years ago. Our ancestors already collected honey from tree trunks, in small pits in the ground or under rocks in prehistoric times. Honey is a sweet substance that bees make from the nectar of flowers, insect honeydew, or the sweet secretions of plants. They forage for this nectar and then transform it. A beehive is a very well organized world, managed by several categories of bees. Unsurprisingly, the main difference between a nectar honey and a honeydew honey is the raw material harvested: to produce a nectar honey, the bee forages the flowers while the production of honeydew honey involves the intervention of an intermediary