They never taught me this at school

[mmm_philosophy1 (mmm philosophy)]

For years I never questioned the process of how bees make honey.

At school all I was taught was that bees go from flower to flower and collect pollen and nectar and then take the nectar back to the hive and deposit it in the honeycomb cells and then we get honey. Until recently, I accepted this, but then I realised that this was the actual process.
Step 1. Bees collect nectar
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Honey

I have sucked the nectar out of flowers many times and it tastes nothing like honey. What on earth was step 2.

I did some research and found out that this was how honey was made:

Bees use their long, tubelike tongues like straws to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their “honey stomachs”. Bees actually have two stomachs, their honey stomach which they use like a nectar backpack and their regular stomach. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honeystomachs.

The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees. These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee’s stomach through their mouths. These “house bees” “chew” the nectar for about half an hour. During this time, enzymes are breaking the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars so that it is both more digestible for the bees and less likely to be attacked by bacteria while it is stored within the hive. The bees then spread the nectar throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it, making it a thicker syrup. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings. Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the cell of the honeycomb with a plug of wax.

So all these years I have been eating dried up bees vomit and saliva.

And then I thought… How on earth do they make wax?

“When workers are roughly 10 days old, they develop special wax-producing glands in their abdomens. They eat lots of honey. The glands convert the sugar in the honey into wax, which seeps through small pores in the bee’s body leaving tiny white flakes on its abdomen. These bits of wax are then chewed by the bees. The chewed wax is added to the construction of the honeycomb.”

Huh… dandruff mixed with saliva!

And then I thought… What was the psychology behind not teaching me this at school?

How much more has been kept a secret from me and why?

[Arcturus_Descending]

@mmm philosophy

For years I never questioned the process of how bees make honey.

At school all I was taught was that bees go from flower to flower and collect pollen and nectar and then take the nectar back to the hive and deposit it in the honeycomb cells and then we get honey. Until recently, I accepted this, but then I realised that this was the actual process.
Step 1. Bees collect nectar
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Honey

I have sucked the nectar out of flowers many times and it tastes nothing like honey. What on earth was step 2.

I did some research and found out that this was how honey was made:

Bees use their long, tubelike tongues like straws to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their “honey stomachs”. Bees actually have two stomachs, their honey stomach which they use like a nectar backpack and their regular stomach. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honeystomachs.

The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees. These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee’s stomach through their mouths. These “house bees” “chew” the nectar for about half an hour. During this time, enzymes are breaking the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars so that it is both more digestible for the bees and less likely to be attacked by bacteria while it is stored within the hive. The bees then spread the nectar throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it, making it a thicker syrup. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings. Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the cell of the honeycomb with a plug of wax.

So all these years I have been eating dried up bees vomit and saliva.

And then I thought… How on earth do they make wax?

“When workers are roughly 10 days old, they develop special wax-producing glands in their abdomens. They eat lots of honey. The glands convert the sugar in the honey into wax, which seeps through small pores in the bee’s body leaving tiny white flakes on its abdomen. These bits of wax are then chewed by the bees. The chewed wax is added to the construction of the honeycomb.”

Huh… dandruff mixed with saliva!

And then I thought… What was the psychology behind not teaching me this at school?

How much more has been kept a secret from me and why?

I will be getting to you on this but have to run. Are you sure you weren’t perhaps taught this in biology and forgot? Don’t worry, no matter how much more was kept from you you have a beautiful questioning mind and you will find anwers as you go along in your life. Thanks for putting this on the post. I actually plan to re-read it. It does speak of the emergence of nature though doesn’t it, it is beautiful, although your “dandruff mixed with saliva” could have been toned down a bit. But I guess it is what it is.

How much here is random and how much is emergence. Wow, how well it is all planned out, and how well it all emerges. Boggles the mind.

Don’t worry, be happy.

[Arcturus_Descending]

@mmm philosophy

For years I never questioned the process of how bees make honey.

At school all I was taught was that bees go from flower to flower and collect pollen and nectar and then take the nectar back to the hive and deposit it in the honeycomb cells and then we get honey. Until recently, I accepted this, but then I realised that this was the actual process.
Step 1. Bees collect nectar
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Honey

I have sucked the nectar out of flowers many times and it tastes nothing like honey. What on earth was step 2.

I did some research and found out that this was how honey was made:

Bees use their long, tubelike tongues like straws to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their “honey stomachs”. Bees actually have two stomachs, their honey stomach which they use like a nectar backpack and their regular stomach. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honeystomachs.

The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees. These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee’s stomach through their mouths. These “house bees” “chew” the nectar for about half an hour. During this time, enzymes are breaking the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars so that it is both more digestible for the bees and less likely to be attacked by bacteria while it is stored within the hive. The bees then spread the nectar throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it, making it a thicker syrup. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings. Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the cell of the honeycomb with a plug of wax.

So all these years I have been eating dried up bees vomit and saliva.

And then I thought… How on earth do they make wax?

“When workers are roughly 10 days old, they develop special wax-producing glands in their abdomens. They eat lots of honey. The glands convert the sugar in the honey into wax, which seeps through small pores in the bee’s body leaving tiny white flakes on its abdomen. These bits of wax are then chewed by the bees. The chewed wax is added to the construction of the honeycomb.”

Huh… dandruff mixed with saliva!

And then I thought… What was the psychology behind not teaching me this at school?

How much more has been kept a secret from me and why?

I will be getting to you on this but have to run. Are you sure you weren’t perhaps taught this in biology and forgot? Don’t worry, no matter how much more was kept from you you have a beautiful questioning mind and you will find anwers as you go along in your life. Thanks for putting this on the post. I actually plan to re-read it. It does speak of the emergence of nature though doesn’t it, it is beautiful, although your “dandruff mixed with saliva” could have been toned down a bit. But I guess it is what it is.

How much here is random and how much is emergence. Wow, how well it is all planned out, and how well it all emerges. Boggles the mind.

Don’t worry, be happy.

[oldschoolhero]

thats so awesome!

the way everything works together in order to recycle nutrients is amazing. all of it enhances biodiversity [ the gene pool ]. anyways, about your question… lol. there are alot of things your not taught at school haha like … “For at least 2700 years, honey has been used by humans to treat a variety of ailments through topical application, but only recently have the antiseptic and antibacterial properties of honey been chemically explained. Wound Gels that contain antibacterial honey and have regulatory approval for wound care are now available to help conventional medicine in the battle against drug resistant strains of bacteria MRSA. As an antimicrobial agent honey may have the potential for treating a variety of ailments.”
-Honey - Wikipedia

it might be spit but poop is used to fertilize [ RECYCLE ] your plants. and like humans, plants are what they eat. so basically… everything you eat is, or once was poop. you just need to understand that its all about the changes of chemical compositions. the freaking incredible, amazing cycles on this planet, which keep it alive. and have potential to heal it.

and by the way i think that honey is an incredibly pure substance if i am not mistaken: when they take it out of the hive its unbelievably clean… but i cant remember my source… so…
anyways

peace,
hassan

[Kriswest]

You do realize that there is only 12 years to teach a child. Thousands of years of knowledge does not cram too well into 12 yrs. There has to be picking and choosing or kids would be climbing the walls

[Rhinoboy]

@mmm philosophy

For years I never questioned the process of how bees make honey.

At school all I was taught was that bees go from flower to flower and collect pollen and nectar and then take the nectar back to the hive and deposit it in the honeycomb cells and then we get honey. Until recently, I accepted this, but then I realised that this was the actual process.
Step 1. Bees collect nectar
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Honey

I have sucked the nectar out of flowers many times and it tastes nothing like honey. What on earth was step 2.

I did some research and found out that this was how honey was made:

Bees use their long, tubelike tongues like straws to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their “honey stomachs”. Bees actually have two stomachs, their honey stomach which they use like a nectar backpack and their regular stomach. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honeystomachs.

The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees. These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee’s stomach through their mouths. These “house bees” “chew” the nectar for about half an hour. During this time, enzymes are breaking the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars so that it is both more digestible for the bees and less likely to be attacked by bacteria while it is stored within the hive. The bees then spread the nectar throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it, making it a thicker syrup. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings. Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the cell of the honeycomb with a plug of wax.

So all these years I have been eating dried up bees vomit and saliva.

And then I thought… How on earth do they make wax?

“When workers are roughly 10 days old, they develop special wax-producing glands in their abdomens. They eat lots of honey. The glands convert the sugar in the honey into wax, which seeps through small pores in the bee’s body leaving tiny white flakes on its abdomen. These bits of wax are then chewed by the bees. The chewed wax is added to the construction of the honeycomb.”

Huh… dandruff mixed with saliva!

And then I thought… What was the psychology behind not teaching me this at school?

How much more has been kept a secret from me and why?

I think you learn it at school, mabey you were ill that day? I could be wrong though, I’ve ept bees since I was 9 so…

That being said alot of that which we learn in school is oversimplified, and entirely wrong, you learn the real ways to do things if u specialise. Though I cant think of any exampes right now lol, aint that always the way