ENT 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cochineal, Venus Flytrap, Decomposer
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Good guys and goodies - insect products and services. Less than 5% of identified insect species are pests i. ii. The rest we should see as beneficial b. The rest are either neutral or good guys without which we could not survive. Honey, beeswax, pollen, royal jelly, and venom - honey bee i. Native to old world , europe, asia, africa, not native to americas but on they brought here. We grow raise and culture honey bees for primarily honey. Nectar from flowers are taken from bees to the hive, while in their stom change the types of sugars, the bees regurgitate the stuff in the cell oth fanning and dehydrating it . Honey is antiseptic, it dehydrates everything that tries to live in it. Source of sweetness because refined sugar was too expensive for comm. It takes thousands of pees to make their pellets. Wild bees make their entire structure on the wax on their bodies.
