Bees make honey

Originally Posted by Quint

All of my bee trees in my timber seem to be disappearing. I don't know if it the CCD they have been talking about or mites or what but trees that have had hives in them for years and years are now devoid of bees. One big old cottonwood had a colony in it for as long as I can remember and my mom said it had bees in it when she was a girl and it has disappeared.

One of the bee trees somewhat close to the house had it's residents disappear last spring. It happened to blow down this winter and just out of curiosity I think I may go down and cut the thing open to see if there are a bunch of dead bees in there or what.

Originally Posted by OkieDavid

As Foxtrapper says, bumble bees make honey and store it in very small quantities. I'll challenge/volunteer someone on this board to locate a colony (easy enough with a brush hog...trust me) and harvest some......Let me know how that smoker works for ya

P.S. PLEASE take someone armed with a video camera when you do........

Originally Posted by fin29

I suppose any insect converting what it eats to body mass for us to consume is an insect producing a product humans can eat. A quick trip to the market in a southeast Asian market will tell you there are MANY sources of protein our Piggly Wiggly sensibilities prevent us from exploring...

Here's an exhaustive (that means "complete," momlaffsalot ) list of the edible insects of North America:
http://www.food-insects.com/book7_31...Indigenous.htm

The complete world list is here:
http://www.food-insects.com/book7_31...20Resource.htm

Originally Posted by Ross

Seems to me bees also collect and store pollen that is taken by people and royal jelly is also harvested but we're still talking bees. Spider venom is used medically and the web industrially silk worm silk is another insect product we use but its not food. I do think there is a different species of insect that produces a food people use but I'm drawing a blank. How about yeast making beer for us! Not exactly an arthropod but neither was the spider.

Originally Posted by Ross

Seems to me bees also collect and store pollen that is taken by people and royal jelly is also harvested but we're still talking bees. Spider venom is used medically and the web industrially silk worm silk is another insect product we use but its not food. I do think there is a different species of insect that produces a food people use but I'm drawing a blank. How about yeast making beer for us! Not exactly an arthropod but neither was the spider.

Originally Posted by silentcrow

Found some info on the food coloring bugs...
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/hea...food_coloring/