Beneficial insect

When insects are insects referred to by humans as livestock are used, for example as food, feed or chemicals producers or for pest control.

The beneficial insects mainly include:

• Insects as beneficial insects are used, so especially for combating pests and nuisance flies .
• Food- producing insects such as edible insects , honey producers ( honey bees ) or dye producers ( cochineal scale insects ).
• Feeder insects
• Insects that are used to produce raw materials, such as silkworms ( silk construction ) or lacquer scale insects ( shellac ).
• Insects used in medicine, such as sterile maggots in maggot therapy .

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  Bees are used to produce honey

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  Edible insects are used as food

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  Cochineal whiteflies provide food coloring

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  Other scale insects are used to produce paint

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  The silk moth is used to produce silk

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  Fly larvae are used to clean wounds