[Sca-cooks] Re: honeybees

[Terry Decker]

True enough, and Apis mellifera is not the only honey producing bee.  The
question should probably be phrased as what honey producing bees have a
range in the Middle East and how does their honey production compare to that
of European honeybees.

Bear

>         I hesitate to disagree with Bear, whose research and scholarship
are
> amazing, but honey is mentioned quite frequently in the Jewish Old
Testament,
> and is among the few insect products that are approved and kosher.  (No
> documentation by chapter and verse, just general memory.)
>      Devra