As a science cat, I don’t stir honey into my tea or drizzle it on my biscuits. I don’t have taste receptors for sweet things. Honey doesn’t have a taste to me. But my human friends gobble up the honey ...

Call me Winnie the Pooh, I guess, because I’m a honey adherent through and through. At the same time, however, I’ve had some burning questions about honey that I could never seem to get a handle on.

For Marko Cilic, beekeeping is more than an activity—it’s a way of life that can be traced back to his family’s roots in Europe. “If you didn’t have bees, you didn't have sweetness,” he says, speaking ...