RE:  Eating Bee Brood
 
I have eaten bee brood several times and find it delicious!  Very like
very tiny, sweet shrimp!  By the way, shrimp and crabs would think nothing
of feeding on a rotting corpse, while baby bees are fed only the finest
honey and pollen.  I find it interesting to explore various food sources
that are all around us and wonder if world hunger would be less of a
problem if more people would have more of an adventurous spirit about
new foods.  (This, from someone who absolutely REFUSED to eat raw tomatos
as a child!)
 
I prefer my bee brood lightly fried in oil and mixed with vegetables.  One
dish I've made is "Peas & Bees" - very tasty.
 
A word of caution, however... I have read that bee larvae are very high in
a particular vitamin and could possibly be toxic if consumed in large
quantities. (So are raw garden peas, for that matter.)
 
The biggest problem with bee brood as a food source is removing the tasty
morsels from their snug little cells.  I have seen a video of someone
removing drone larvae from a comb with a fine jet of water but have not
tried it myself.  I usually pick my own "brood-for-food" out of burr comb
I scrape off while working my hives.
 
Give it a try...you'll like it!
 
Cheers,
Dave Pehling
 
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