Honeybees turn nectar into honey. Plenty of other insects drink the sweet energy drink produced by flowers to fuel their flight, but no other stockpiles a concentrated version of it to see it through the winter. And we’ve prized this natural sweetener for thousands of years for its culinary and medicinal qualities.
Honeybees also secrete wax from a gland to construct their honeycomb home of hexagonal wax cells. And we have harvested it for centuries to make candles and seal documents.
