0 a sticky substance similar to honey, left on leaves by some types of insect
1 a type of melon (= large fruit with a thick skin) that has white, green, or yellow skin and sweet flesh with a lot of juice
The number of honeydew spots per live nymph per 24 h was calculated.
Researchers found honeydew melon seeds in her stomach, inferring consumption right before death.
Ants, such as wood ants, are common on willows inhabited by aphids, coming to collect aphid honeydew, as sometimes do wasps.
The conidia are then secreted out of the plant as honeydew where insects can transfer the fungi to other plants causing more infections.
In these circumstances, ants may supplement their honeydew intake by preying on the aphids once the aphid populations have reached certain densities.
Ants like to eat and collect the honeydew made by the caterpillar.
Honeydew flirts with both twins, causing them to become jealous of each other.
In most cases the ants collect and transport the honeydew secretions from the hemipterans back to the nest for consumption.
