What is a "honeymoon" anyways?

I've been spending a lot of time at the Library lately, and have consequently been renting lots of DVDs. I thought I'd look for one about how bees make honey. I've always been a huge fan of honey. I put it in tea, on my cereal, and sometimes eat it by the spoonful. My family once received as a gift, a metal tin containing a large peice of Yemeni honeycomb which was dripping in golden honey. (It looked like this) http://www.aiys.org/webdate/can10.jpg In Yemen, honey is used as folk medicine to treat a variety of different ailments, and can be very expensive. Honey is mentioned frequently in both the Bible and Quran, and people have been enjoying and cultivating bee's hives in order to harvest this sweet product for thousands of years. So....
I was thinking about borrowing a bee documentary yesterday, but was filled with a great fear that it might put me off the stuff forever. You know what I mean. Nature documentarys always take pride in matter-of-face, show-in-greatest detail even the ugly bits type of footage. I decided to get it anyhow. I watched it last night. It was great! Not only did I not lose my honeylust, but I learned a few things as well. Aparently, there are thousands of types of bees, but only a handful, the honeybee variety, produces honey. These bees work for twelve hours a day, braving weather, bee-eating birds, bears, and avoiding hostile people. (I realise that this may sound like the picture of an ideal vacation to some, but to the bees it's a matter of existance ) The majority of these bees are workers which are females. They are small-bodied and build the hive, and tend to the birthing of the male drones. The male drone might make up only 10% of the colony or so. They are slightly lager and have huge black eyes. I wondered why out of all the larvae, why so few became males? They don't build the hive, or gather pollen and nectar-- they just mate with the queen and die. not much of a honeymoon foe them... If this seemed mysterious at first, the sex-ratio of the bees, the circumstances which surround the Queen Bee's life were even more bizzare. At least the documentary explained their lives in more detail than that of the pitiful male drone. All pupae are, when they are first deposited into their hexagonal wax wombs, covered in a substance called Royal Jelly. Obviously, whoever coined the term, had issues. Issues aside, this "royal jelly" (which is secreted from glands in the heads of worker bees) is used to feed all pupae in their very beginning stages of life. They go thorugh several molthings, and even spin thier own cocoons. I'm not sure at what point, but very early on in the process they're quickly taken off the RJ and primarially subsist on pollen and and nectar for the remainder of their metamorphoses, and on into their adult lives. But, if a Queen is needed, a seperate area is constructed, a sort of royal nursery, where pupae are fed nothing but Royal Jelly. Then, they turn into Queens. If several Queens are born, the first one to break out of its wax compartment will quickly "murder" her rivals, by stabbing them with her stinger through the walls of their cells. I thought that all of this was pretty cool. I kind of want to be a beekeeper now. (An "apiarist" to those in the biz)