I think these "raindrops" are collected by honeybees too. The main ingrediants of Waldhonig honey from the forest are these drops and not the nectar from flowers. Regards Nalini ----- Original Message ----- From: Pankaj Oudhia To: efloraofindia Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:44766] Buffalo Tree Hopper on Khair
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 <ushande...@gmail.com> 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 <pankajoud...@gmail.com> 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...@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 <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> 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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