Honeypot

Honeypot may refer to:

• A vessel (especially one made of pottery) for storing honey

Biology

• Honeypot ant, various ant species and their individual members
• Honeypot, flowering plant Protea cynaroides
• Honeypot dryandra, flowering plant Banksia nivea

Metaphors evoking the use of honey as bait in a trap

• Honey trapping, presenting romantic or sexual opportunity, as bait or as continuing motivation

Espionage using sexual/romantic "bait"

• Recruitment of spies
• Honeypots in espionage fiction

"Sting" operations

• Bait car, a vehicle used by law enforcement agencies to capture thieves
• Honeypot (computing), target presented to elicit hacking attempts

Titled works

Narrative works

• The Honey Pot, a 1967 film starring Rex Harrison and Susan Hayward
• The Honeypot (film), a 1920 British silent romance film
• "Honeypot" (Archer), episode of animated TV series Archer
• "The Honeypot" (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), episode of TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Songs

• "Honeypot", by Beat Happening on their eponymous album
• "Honeypot", by Rebelution on Peace of Mind album

Other

• Honeytrap: The Secret Lives of Stephen Ward, 1987 non-fiction book by Anthony Summers and Stephen Dorril

Places

• Honeypot Glen, area in Cheshire, Connecticut
• Honeypot Wood, site west of Dereham in Norfolk

Other uses

• Honeypot, local name for a patch of quicksand in Maine, U.S.
• Honeypot (tourism), particularly popular venue
• Honeypot Productions, theatre company

See also

• Honey (disambiguation)
• Honey bucket (disambiguation)
• Honeytoken – Entries in a database to track stolen data
• WP:HONEYPOT