>"Wax and insects are the main food of the honey-guide, which is most unusual in being able to digest wax, an ability shared by only a few other animal species, such as the wax moths Galleria, Achroia, and Phormia. Friedman & Kern (1956a, 1956b) have shown that in the honey-guides this is do to the presence in the gut of Micrococcus cerolyticus and the yeast Candida albicans."

She also writes that Friedman's earlier study in 1955,  indicated that the birds will also guide ratels and honey badgers to bee trees the same as they do humans. 


Eva Crane - Honey - a Comprehensive Study

Bill Hesbach
Northeast USA

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