Biggest bees...

There's lot of info about the biggest bees in the world online..  Not hornet but bee, specifically 'honey bee'..

 Apis dorsata laboriosawas a subspecies of the widespread Apis dorsata, the giant honey bee, can be as big as 3 cm in length.  

Adapted to Highlands, found in Nepal, these biggest honey bees have their hive's up in mountain cliffs.  

But due to some specific reasons, these bees which live high up in altitude, produce a reddish honey, with unique properties.

The red honey's medicinal value which are attributed to the grayanotoxin present in the nectar collected from white rhododendrons.

 Gurung people in Nepal are renowned for their use of this honey.  

About 10 to 15 GMs of this honey, its reported that, highly surreal and paralyzed type of experience for many hours.  

Its supposed to have cleansing properties, but comparatively tougher (tortuous) way to detox than most other methods.  Loss of body control, vomiting, etc can be part of this, and can last up to 5-6 hours long, and an additional day might be required to get back to your own self.  Fruit diet for couple of days, and a day of coconut water fasting, before consuming and within 10 to 30 minutes, loss of body control can occur.  Milk is considered as a way to neutralize, but recovery takes few hours.  Some wrongly consider it as a recreational thrill, but its a tough medicine...  Many youtube videos have helped to create misconceptions.

But as usual, these big bees are in danger, because their sensitive ecological areas are always over exploited by humans.  

Bees and similar creatures are necessary links for plants to reproduce, but few people realize importance of bees...  Don't bee such...