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 =========================================== | W.S.U./SNOHOMISH CO. COOPERATIVE EXTENSION | | 600 128TH ST. S.E. | | EVERETT, WA. 98208 U.S.A. | |PHONE - (206)338-2400 | |FAX - (206)338-3994 | |INTERNET [log in to unmask] | ============================================