Beehive fresh waxworms good to eat?

[DesertIsis]

Hello all!
I have a question regarding the nature of feeder wax worms and how they are usually bred and obtained.

I have a second question, as well. I am a bee keeper and while getting rid of a collapsed hive I noticed a very strong population of waxworms wriggling in the comb. We keep ours hives strictly organic during the majority of the year, and treat them for mites after the last honey pull, so this have has not been treated yet. Would these worms be ok for my beardie to eat? Has anyone else gotten waxworms in this way?

~Thanks!

 

[WoolyMarmot]

Don't beekeepers use some type of smoke to disable bees' "alarm pheromones" and trigger their instinct of filling themselves with honey to keep them busy?

Is the smoke natural?

 

[DesertIsis]

The smoke is natural. We use pine wood and needles (from our property) and some times paper as kindeling.
And it doesn't quite disable the pheromone, it more tricks them into thinking that there is a forest fire and that they need to hunker down in the hive.
Trust me, when one of them stings the pheromone works just fine. -_-

Thanks for the thought though! If the hive hadn't been dead for a while I would have worried about the pesicides in the area.