Pine honey is a type of honeydew honey. It is produced by honey bees that collect honeydew (sugary secretions) from a scale insect species, Marchalina hellenica, which lives on the sap of certain pine species. When the scale insects feed, they excrete waste in the form of honeydew.
The pine species on which Marchalina hellenica can be found are the Turkish Pine (Pinus brutia) and, to a lesser extent, Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis), Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) and Stone Pine (Pinus pinea). The insects hide in the cracks and under the scales of the bark of these trees, beneath a white cotton-like wax they secrete.
Pine honey is produced in western (mainly southwestern) Turkey, a number of Greek islands, and New Zealand.