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 honeydew can rain down on neighboring and understory plants.
The honeydew it produces is an important source of food for forest honey bees, which produce pine honey.
They tend aphids for honeydew, feed on small insects and vertebrates, and forage on plants, especially for sweet materials.
The adults require sugar as an energy source obtained from nectars, honeydew, plant sap and sugars leached through the phloem.
As a by-product of feeding, honeydew is excreted and that alone can be a second, major source of damage.
If the bug moves or changes the direction of the stream of honeydew, the snail is able to reposition itself quickly.
Moths tend to approach the bug from the side and position their proboscis so that they can catch flying drops of honeydew.
In most cases the ants collect and transport the honeydew secretions from the hemipterans back to the nest for consumption.
