system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What is the most culinarily elaborate “dish” made by a nonhuman animal?

Whether it involves combining two separate foods, cooking the food, or preparing it some other way, what the most complicated transformation that an animal has made to its meal?
gpt
I'd argue honey bees producing honeydew honey. First juices of plants normally unsuitable for bees are extracted from leaves by other aphids and transformed into honeydew, a thick, dark, sticky secretion. Bees collect it and transform into honey, which they then seal in the honeycombs, alongside with larvae who can feed on it. Not only is it already transformed plant product which they transform further into something pretty far from the original, they seal it in airtight containers to preserve it against contamination and leakage - and the transformation goes way beyond typical "regurgirated food for the younglings" common in other animals.