Bees are often killed in the production of honey, in the worst case the whole hive may be destroyed if the keeper doesn't wish to protect them over the winter. Artificial insemination involving death of the male is now also the norm for generation of new queen bees. The favoured method of obtaining bee sperm is by pulling off the insects head.
Decapitation sends an electrical impulse to the nervous system which causes sexual arousal.
The lower half of the headless bee is then squeezed to make it ejaculate. Some refined sugars use bone charcoal as a decolourant. In the UK Tate and Lyle and Billingtons sugars are free of animal substances. No data is presently available concerning sugar in other countries. In the UK the shiny Washington red apples are glazed with shellac, which is a resin produced from insects.