“…Whole body extracts of many bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, moths, cockroaches, beetles etc. as anticancer and anti-bacterial agents "We are in danger of returning to a pre-antibiotic era" The Royal Society, 2008 (royalsociety.org/Innovative-mechanisms-fortackling-antibacterial-resistance) Insect body extracts have been used widely in folk medicine, and in Chinese traditional medicine, for treating throat and ear infections, tuberculosis, influenza, cancer and many other diseases and ailments (Pemberton, 1999;Costa-Neto, 2002, 2005aFeng et al, 2009). In China, insects from 77 species, 14 families and 8 orders have been traditionally used to treat tumours and cancer (Jiang, 1990).…”