The honeydew of aphids very attractive to moths and roaches.
When the ants wish a dainty luncheon of honeydew they crawl up under the little shed and get a drink of this sweet juice.
This same ant dearly loves the honeydew which aphids secrete.
The box is a yellow, half-pound honeydew box, with nothing distinctive save two thumb marks at the left bottom corner.
The box is a half-pound box of honeydew tobacco, and does not help us in any way.
Then the little creatures will pour out a small quantity ofhoneydew from the tubes on their backs, which the ants will lick up.
First, they draw off all their sap, which is really their life-blood; and then they drop this sticky honeydew on to the leaves below, and choke up the little holes by means of which they breathe.
From an outsider's point of view I may be only worthy of a foot-note in a manual of psychology; but I 'on honeydew have fed and drunk the milk of Paradise.
Those whom the gods love die young--they drink too deep and too often of honeydew and become intoxicated even unto death.
Lutz says that the manna which fed the Children of Israel was honeydew secreted by a scale insect, and that it is still eaten.
A tree from which honeydewor other liquid secretions of insects drip in considerable quantities, esp.
Honeydew is my constant companion," said he; "it is quite certain that we shall be friends.
I have known young turkeys, after they were large enough for use, to have their wings so gummed with honeydew that they could not fly out of the way of a dog--have known lots of them to be caught with dogs when they wanted to use them.
Honeydew fell in such quantities as to completely kill the tops of the grass where it was open.
But the effect produced on the tree is not only unsightly, from the sooty blackness, but also injurious, from the choking-up of the stomata both by the honeydew and the fungus.
Aphidian honeydew contains a very large quantity of sugar, and, curiously enough, cane-sugar.
They are, in fact, apparently, only the usual growths appearing on any decomposing substance, such as the honeydew is.
For the purposes of this work further details as to the production of honeydew are not necessary.
It follows that the spray of honeydew from the burst bubble falls, not on the leaf where the insect is, but on the upper sides of the leaves below it.
But in no case does it appear that our Coccids[E] form honeydew to the same extent as the Aphides, which are stated to produce sometimes quantities that may be gathered from the leaves or the soil by the pound weight.
It has been said above that when the bubble of honeydew has been expanded to its full size it breaks into spray.
C] Not necessarily a Coccid insect: the fungus may also grow on the honeydew of Aphis; but it is easy to recognize the difference between these insects.
When nectar or honeydew has been thickened by evaporation and otherwise changed, the honey is sealed in the cells with cappings of beeswax.
Bees also often gather a sweet liquid called "honeydew," produced by various scale insects and plant-lice, but the honeydew honey made from it is quite unlike floral honey in flavor and composition and should not be sold for honey.
Honeydew honey should not be left in the hives, as it produces "dysentery.
Plant lice have honeydew in their bodies, and when well fed they give out a great deal of it.
They sometimes confine the plant lice, feed them, and milk the honeydew from the bodies of their captors.
Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete.
Many of the Aphid‘ excretehoneydew from two tubes near the end of the body.
The box is a half-pound box of honeydew tobacco and does not help us in any way.
She went to work with such a lack of discretion--abstracting half a pound of honeydew at a time--that I couldn't find any sympathy for her.
The honeydew is excreted in such quantities that often the pavement beneath trees may be seen to be spattered by the drops of this sweet rain.
Although the honeydew does not come from the little tubes on the back of the plant-louse, yet those tubes have their uses.
It is easy to see how this mistake came about; the tubes were there, and so was the honeydew; the tubes suggested a cow's udder, and as the ants use the honeydew the natural inference was that it came from the tubes.
Observations have shown that each individual plant-louse may produce from five to seven drops of honeydew in twenty-four hours.
For many years entomologists repeated the statement that the honeydew secreted by aphids or plant-lice for the use of the ants came from the two little tubes on the back of the insect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honeydew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
