Beetle honey

Beetle Honey is recovered by pulping honey combs which include brood combs. This type of honey is used only for feeding bees. 

Animal products constitute 20% of homeopathic remedies and are collected from whole animals or their parts. Apis mellifica is prepared from the whole honey bee, Cantharis from the dried powder of the beetle, Cantharis vasicata, Sepia officinalis from the ink gland of the cuttle fish, Lachesis from the venom of the bush master snake and Tarantula hispanica from the poisonous Spanish spider (Cook, 1988). Lac caninum is prepared from dog s milk and Calcarea carbonica from oyster shell. 

Coumaphos is of interest because it is the most effective pesticide against varroa mites and small hive beetles in beehives and is an ingredient of insecticide strips hung in the hives to kill the mites.9 There is some concern regarding this use because of coumaphos detected in honey. The U.S. EPA has granted extensions for the use of coumaphos in beehives, including one to run from February 2, 2002, to February 1, 2003. 

Some of the pests in question included the "pine looper moth, pine beauty, pine moth. Nun moth, saw flies, bark beetles, pine needle cast fungus, pine bluster rust, honey fungus, red rot (Maser, The Redesigned Forest, p. 78). 

Coiorado potato beetie parasite (Edovum puttier ) Parasitizes eggs of Colorado potato beetle. Best effect seen against second generation of potato beetles. Become established faster when there is a source of honey-dew from aphids nearby Experimental not hardy in northern areas. %... 

A test performed to observe the swarming of ants to sugars showed that formose is not as attractive to ants as are natural sugars (see Table IX). Similar tests were performed with honey bees, lady beetles, cockroaches, and pearl moths in relation to swarming and utilization of formose, with similar results. 

Most herbicides and fungicides are not directly toxic to honey bees. In the same way, sex lures, attractants, and other hormones usually cause no acute toxicity problems for adult bees. Occasionally, a few honey bees and bumble bees have been found in traps containing Japanese beetle lures... 

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