Hive management genetics of the queen. Queens and drones are selectively bred to increase the production of royal jelly. A good yield per hive is 5 kg per year. Bee venom (apitoxin) is obtained by stimulating the bee with an electric current that incite them to sting, releasing a drop of poison onto a glass slide. The crystallized venom can be collected and processed. In order to get 1 gram of dry venom, it is necessary to collect the apitoxin of 10,000 to 15,000 bees. Bee brood as such is generally not a commercial commodity. However, bee brood is edible, and is
The Venom Trees of Sunga Venom Trees of Sunga" definitively places Kukulkan in the "Viagens" universe. Roland J. Green, writing for the "Chicago Sun-Times", called the book "light without being fluffy ... [w]itty and briskly paced, with a number of digs at the New Age world-view." The Venom Trees of Sunga The Venom Trees of Sunga is a science fiction novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the twelfth book in his "Viagens Interplanetarias" series and the second in its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Kukulkan. It was first published in paperback by Del Rey Books in November 1992. An E-book