Honey of a healer

Isthmus | April 25, 2008| | Copyright

Your favorite bee product is good for more than just food

Honey is a bizarre food. A miraculous food. Small blackand-yellow-striped insects armed with venomous butt-daggers suck nectar from flowers, along the way facilitating the strange ritual of floral sex, or "pollination," as the prudes call it. The bees store their nectar in a second "honey stomach," and upon arriving back at the hive, puke it into another bee's "honey stomach." These bees then let the nectar further digest, before disgorging the material into the storage area of their intricate insect palaces lined with perfectly ...

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