a) How do you kill a large amount of bees?
b) Why would you want to?
a) Put them in a box in the freezer.
b) To eat them!
Hmmm...every now & again what we will & will not eat comes up, personally i'll try anything once though i do have a problem with insects & especially bees. Bees (usually honey bees rather than bumble bees) along with other insects are incredibly popular foodstuffs from Thailand to Mexico,China to Brazil....An article on exotic foods i found in a 1960's magazine made me think about this again. I thought 'exotic' in the 60's could be anything from an aubergine to tinned ravioli,but these were insect tidbits-ew! & all tinned-ew!
The article suggests you serve grasshoppers,bees & silkworms as cocktail nibbles-can you imagine? It continues that these delicacies are available at large London stores, i checked out Harrods,Fortnum & Mason & Selfridges on the net but it looks like insect snacks have disappeared from their shelves.
Still on the net i visited the Bug house section of
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ has recipes for pan roasted grasshoppers, dragonfly stew & scorpion soup.
http://www.chefdepot.net/chocolateants.htm has a recipe to make your own chocolate covered ants. And what about the bees? After a deadly rest in the freezer you handle them with care as dead bees can still sting, then cook (usually fried) the high temp disables the sting...then chow down! Apparently they taste a little creamy with a honeylike flavour. Young bees are a special treat & Australian aborigines have bee larvae as a favourite snack. Bees on toast vs beans on toast-you decide!!
