A comprehensive tour of honey, currently at the heart of technological issues that societies will have to face.

This work collects and presents all the information currently available about bees and honey: their origins, their uses, their roles in society, the symbols attached to them, etc. Discussions of honey inevitably include the bee, an insect that has always fascinated humans. Today, bees come up in debates about ecological transition and its crucial stake: the preservation of biodiversity. We all know that if bees disappear, not only will we be out of honey, but all human foodstuffs will be threatened by lack of pollination.