The Mystery of the Red Bees of Red Hook

cecilia said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html?_r=1

very interesting article which brings up the issue of how humans are affecting animals and the rest of our beautiful planet.

the the ethics of what we do screwing things up......
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:roflmao: :roflmao: News flash!!!! Bee's are attracted to sugar syrup!!!!

Guess you never noticed how quickly bee's can find a can of soda pop. Set can down, pick it up, take another drink, spit out bee.

Honey bees have been domesticated for about 3000 years ....
 
If anything this article shows how natural it is to be unnatural.
 
metalman said:
cecilia said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html?_r=1

very interesting article which brings up the issue of how humans are affecting animals and the rest of our beautiful planet.

the the ethics of what we do screwing things up......
Click to expand...

:roflmao: :roflmao: News flash!!!! Bee's are attracted to sugar syrup!!!!

Guess you never noticed how quickly bee's can find a can of soda pop. Set can down, pick it up, take another drink, spit out bee.

Honey bees have been domesticated for about 3000 years ....
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why am I not surprised you completely missed the point? :roll:

of course bees find syrup easily.

the problem is that there's all this shit in syrup - not just dyes - all over the planet and bees (as well as other animals like, oh, humans) who are ingesting this crap. what kind of "honey" will this yield? crap?

and bees are supposed to be hanging around flowers plants pollinating and making possible our food supply. this isn't going to happen if they spend all their time around crap syrup.

god damn lazy bees :whack:
 
cecilia said:
the problem is that there's all this shit in syrup - not just dyes - all over the planet and bees (as well as other animals like, oh, humans) who are ingesting this crap. what kind of "honey" will this yield? crap?

and bees are supposed to be hanging around flowers plants pollinating and making possible our food supply. this isn't going to happen if they spend all their time around crap syrup.

god damn lazy bees :whack:
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And there is not all kinds of stuff in natural honey??

Bees do not create honey, they are collecting and transporting the nectar sugars that they find produced by flowering plants. The honey we eat is the flower nectar that bees have repeatedly regurgitated, added enzymes and dehydrated to thicken the sugar nectar into honey.

The honeybee uses her tubular tongue to suck nectar syrup from the flower into her abdominal honey sack. When the sack is full, the bee returns to the hive to offload the collected nectar to a food-processing worker bee, that sucks the nectar from the worker bee's honey sack and works the nectar in its mouth for 20 minutes, adding enzymes to the nectar to break down the sugars. The processing bee will then distribute the nectar to be eaten by the brood or place it into the honeycomb for long-term storage and further dehydration.

Bees spend their time looking for sugar syrup, the biggest, sweetest source gets their attention.

So why would a bee want to fly around to thousands of flowers each with a single drop of nectar, or go the the Maraschino cherry plant and fill up in one stop from the bottomless vat of syrup?

The beekeeper should just sell the honey on ebay as Marashino cherry honey!
 
In 1912, the Food and Drug Administration as one of its first acts, legally defined what could be called a maraschino cherry.

The word "fruit" is avoided by maraschino cherry producers describing their product :wink:

History of the Maraschino Cherry
 
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