There is honey called “mad honey” which produces hallucinations. People in Nepal venture through dangerous vertical climbs to gather it. Price per pound is 60$
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2 years ago, Pakistan started a Billion…
2 years ago, Pakistan started a Billion Tree Tsunami project, to plant 1 billion trees all over the country within 5 years. Today, they witnessed 70% increase in honey production.
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Bees can produce coloured “honey”…
Bees can produce coloured “honey”. Beekeepers in northeastern France noticed that their bees were producing honey in unnatural shades of green and blue. The reason turned out to be that the bees had been eating remnants of M&M candy shells from a nearby factory.
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500 Million Brazilian Bees Died in Only Three Months
You’ve probably heard by now that the world’s ability to produce food is connected to the availability of a thriving bee population. Bees are nature’s most integral pollinators, responsible for pollinating 75% of the world’s crops.
And they’re dying at a rate that’s almost impossible to comprehend – to the tune of 500 million bees in Brazil alone in just three month’s time.
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Between December 2018 and February 2019, 400 million bees in Rio Grande do Sul, 7 million in Santa Catarina, and 45 million in Mato Grosso do Sul lost their lives, and Aldo Machado, the vice president of Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul’s beekeeping association, is concerned.
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“As soon as the healthy bees began clearing the dying bees out of the hives, they became contaminated. They started dying en masse.”
Researchers are blaming Brazil’s decision to allow the use of 300 new pesticides on crops in 2019; many of the dead bees contained traces of fipronil, an insecticide commonly used to rid dogs and cats of fleas and ticks.. The U.S. EPA classifies it as a possible human carcinogen, but if you’ve got a dog, you may have some in your house.
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Alberto Bastos, the president of the Apiculturist Association of Brazil’s Federal District, told Bloomberg that the “death of all these bees is a sign that we’re being poisoned.”
Not to mention that bees provide billions of dollars worth of agricultural benefits that will disappear along with them if they go.
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Will people listen? Will it be too late by the time food shortages begin to make their way into developed corners of the world?
Only time will tell, but the people who are hearing what the bees have to tell us are already beating the drum.
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Archaeologists routinely find edible honey…
Archaeologists routinely find edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs – the stuff never spoils, due to extremely low water-content, very low pH, and hydrogen peroxide (made by an enzyme in the bees’ stomachs).
A type of food fraud where honey is cut with cheaper sugars…
A type of food fraud where honey is cut with cheaper sugars and syrups and then sold as pure honey is called “Honey Laundering”.