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Propolis, melittin, bee venom, apamin, royal jelly, manuka, bee pollen, perga, venom immunotherapy, drone brood, apilarnil. Full text where the licence allows it, abstracts and metadata where it does not.
Ebers Papyrus, Sushruta Samhita, Shennong Ben Cao Jing, Dioscorides, Pliny, Avicenna, Butler 1609, Hill 1759, Terč 1888, Beck 1935, Ioirish 1956. Public-domain texts in full, later works by citation.
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"How much venom does a colony actually yield, and what does that mean for supply?"
Roughly one gram of dry venom can be collected from twenty hives over a two-hour session, and about a million stings are required to produce a single gram.1 Historical scale is small by comparison: one major United States producer collected around three kilograms in thirty years.1 Against that, the research demand side is well documented, with melittin under active preclinical investigation in oncology.2,3 The record therefore describes a supply that is limited by collection labour rather than by colony numbers.
Note returned with the answer: the yield figures date from the 1990s and no more recent systematic measurement appears in the indexed record.
1FAO, Value-added products from beekeeping, Chapter 7. Bee venom yield, collection method and historical production volume.
2Melittin cytotoxicity in A375 melanoma cells, 2025. Preclinical, in vitro.
3Melittin-based nanoparticles for cancer therapy, review, 2025. Preclinical.
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