Insects consume a wide variety of high energy liquids. For ants the most common is a substance known as Honeydew. Honeydew is a high sugar excretion extracted from mature aphids and scale insects after feeding on plant sap. Some other insects such as certain butterfly and moth caterpillars and beetles have been known to secrete this important source of food. Honey bees have also been known to make honey from honeydew instead of nectar. This Honeydew honey is not as sweet as that made from nectar and not as palatable to humans but is sought after for it’s medicinal purposes.

Honeydew is very important to most ant colonies and is even, in its crystallized form, treated like currency in many colonies throughout the Underground. A system originally developed and implemented by Queen Azulon. Some ants even go so far as to keep herds of Aphids that they “milk” by stroking them with their antennae. Honeypot ants go one step further and force feed special ants called repletes until they swell to the size of a grape. This replete elixir is widely sought after in the underground for it’s ability to boost the strength, speed and reflexes of any insect who consumes it.