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For my seasonal pollen allergies here's what I do. a) Take a spoonful of dried bee bread b) Take 2 spoonful of local honey c) Add 100ml warm water d) Stir it until the bee-bread dissolves e) Drink it. (Starts acting in 10 minutes) Anyone know why it works?
Placebo effect
Are there any negative effects to harvesting this bee bread? > But the bees do not consume their pollen fresh. Instead, they take it into the hive and pack the granules into empty comb cells, mixing them with nectar and digestive fluids and sealing the cell with a drop of honey. Once processed in this way, the pollen remains stable indefinitely. Beekeepers call this form of pollen ‘perga’ or ‘bee bread’. This implies…
What does this have to do with colony collapse disorder? AFAIK, we don't really understand colony collapse disorder, but I think it's safe to say it doesn't have anything to do with humans taking the bees' food. In fact, the very first sentence of the Wikipedia articles says "Colony collapse disorder is the phenomenon that occurs when the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear and leave behind ... plenty of fo…
> we don't really understand colony collapse disorder
Look at the bee expert here. ;)
But really, the parent post didn't make a direct connection to the two. More of an implication of a combination of the two being pretty disastrous.
Are there any negative effects to harvesting this bee bread? > But the bees do not consume their pollen fresh. Instead, they take it into the hive and pack the granules into empty comb cells, mixing them with nectar and digestive fluids and sealing the cell with a drop of honey. Once processed in this way, the pollen remains stable indefinitely. Beekeepers call this form of pollen ‘perga’ or ‘bee bread’. This implies…
Honey is the overwinter food; beekeepers typically try to leave the bees about 80 lbs, depending on the climate. Pollen is much more important for raising new bees -- removing it will limit the growth of the hive, which in some species is actually desirable. A hive which grows too much is prone to swarming, which beekeepers typically avoid. They will instead save the pollen for the spring -- if you feed the bees pollen after it has begun to warm but before there are flowers in bloom, it will help them build their population back up earlier and they will be at full strength for the early nectar flows.
@emidln U probably forgot that U had submitted the same article on HN ~6months ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nordicfoodlab.org Thanks for sharing though, i had missed it the last time around. :) :)
I wouldn't say that I forgot, more that I was reminded by an email: Hi there, [snip] looks good, but didn't get much attention. Would you care to repost it? You can do so here: [snip]. Please use the same account (emidln), title, and URL. When these match, the software will give the repost an upvote from the mods, plus we'll help make sure it doesn't get flagged. This is part of an experiment in giving good HN submis…
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What does this have to do with colony collapse disorder? AFAIK, we don't really understand colony collapse disorder, but I think it's safe to say it doesn't have anything to do with humans taking the bees' food. In fact, the very first sentence of the Wikipedia articles says "Colony collapse disorder is the phenomenon that occurs when the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear and leave behind ... plenty of fo…
> I think it's safe to say it doesn't have anything to do with humans taking the bees' food. > we don't really understand colony collapse disorder Look at the bee expert here. ;) But really, the parent post didn't make a direct connection to the two. More of an implication of a combination of the two being pretty disastrous.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I think it's safe to say it doesn't have anything to do with humans taking the bees' food. > we don't really understand colony collapse disorder Look at the bee expert here. ;) But really, the parent post didn't make a direct connection to the two. More of an implication of a combination of the two being pretty disastrous.
I mean, humans have been harvesting bee products for at least a few thousand years...
Hilarious coincident that the photographer's name is Josh Pollen!
Or is this the coming of the bee revolution?! Wake up sheeple!!! (Just kidding of course). Seriously though, I've never heard of the last name "Pollen", is there any chance that it's pseudonym?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I think it's safe to say it doesn't have anything to do with humans taking the bees' food. > we don't really understand colony collapse disorder Look at the bee expert here. ;) But really, the parent post didn't make a direct connection to the two. More of an implication of a combination of the two being pretty disastrous.
I mean, humans have been harvesting bee products for at least a few thousand years...