Thanks Usha ji for your message. I have written about collection procedure in my report titled "Management of Type 2 Diabetes through Traditional Healing Methods." Here is link for this report but I must suggest you to wait for a while as Google is indexing these links. It is bit difficult to get the exact information in over 10 million pages by visiting directly to the link.
http://pankajoudhia.com/newwork.html regards Pankaj Oudhia On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Usha Desai <[email protected]> wrote: > Neil > nice photographs. One can see the pronotum of the hopper whch looks like a > thorn on the acacia tree...helping it to camouflage[?]. > and info about buffalo hoppers is interesting.. > Pankajji > interesting that this liquid is is used in traditional healing and glad > you have documented itHow do the tribal collect the honeydew? > cheers Usha > > > On 18 August 2010 16:08, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Have you ever tasted it Kiran ji? In Traditional Healing it is used as >> medicine and I have documented this knowledge. >> >> regards >> >> Pankaj Oudhia >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:45 PM, kiran srivastava <srivastava.jo@ >> gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> ...and whilst walking in the forest sometimes one feels minute drops of >>> 'rain' which is nothing but honeydew that Dr. Soares talks about! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Kiran Srivastava >>> Mumbai >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Thought this might be interesting. Photographed at my farm at Shahapur >>>> on Sunday. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Young Khair [Acacia catechu] saplings are susceptible to grazing >>>> animals. By providing food resources to ants in the form of extrafloral >>>> nectaries [near the base of the leaflets] the plant makes it obligatory for >>>> the ants to protect them. >>>> >>>> The Buffalo Tree Hopper [Leptocentrus taurus] sucks sap from the >>>> plant and is hence a serious pest. Ideally, the ants should also rid the >>>> plant of this pest except for its secret weapon : Honeydew. Their excreta >>>> called Honeydew is rich in sugar acids, amino acids, vitamins, alcohol and >>>> carbohydrates. It is excreted in the form of tiny liquid droplets. Ants >>>> protect these hymenopterans from predators and in return are rewarded with >>>> honeydew. >>>> >>>> The Common Godzilla Ant [Camponotus compressus] uses its antennae >>>> to tap the body of the treehopper to induce it to release honeydew. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sending a few photographs. >>>> >>>> With regards, >>>> >>>> Neil Soares. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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