A new study identified compounds in honey
that help bees fight off germs.
Credit: Jack Dykinga, USDA Agricultural
Research Service, Bugwood.org
3 comments:
Jahan
said...
This is so cool. This is like generation of immunity. They generate honey and the stuff in honey helps them. I find that really awesome. I didn't know that they loved sweet stuff and that it actually helped them generate antitoxin. I wish that would happen to us. I wonder, if we can feed them an increasing amount every day, would they eventually be able to take in huge amounts and maybe even create something that can help us? That would be really cool. In addition, I wonder if there is some sort of antitoxin that could stop us from being poisoned, and is made up of more or less the same thing that is used for bees? That would also be really awesome. All in all, quite amazing that they have an antitoxin and maybe we can discover something like that. A+++++++++++
This is really cool. They eat the sweet pollen, then the honey, and it helps them. Like Jahan said, I had no idea that bees were addicted to sugar. It is cool how the honey turns on a gene that helps fight off a toxin. It makes sense that these toxins would be found in pesticides that are found in flowers. Overall, I think it is cool how the bees are getting food and fighting off toxins.
This is very interesting. At the beginning of the article it says their weakness is sugar, but actually their weakness is beneficial for them. When bees encounter harmful chemicals on flowers the honey that they are addicted to helps fight of the poison. If the human body had this ability, maybe we would not be suffering from harmful diseases as much. In conclusion, I am amazed by this component of honey. It is amazing that it can help heal the damage that our pestisides have made.
3 comments:
This is so cool. This is like generation of immunity. They generate honey and the stuff in honey helps them. I find that really awesome. I didn't know that they loved sweet stuff and that it actually helped them generate antitoxin. I wish that would happen to us. I wonder, if we can feed them an increasing amount every day, would they eventually be able to take in huge amounts and maybe even create something that can help us? That would be really cool. In addition, I wonder if there is some sort of antitoxin that could stop us from being poisoned, and is made up of more or less the same thing that is used for bees? That would also be really awesome. All in all, quite amazing that they have an antitoxin and maybe we can discover something like that. A+++++++++++
This is really cool. They eat the sweet pollen, then the honey, and it helps them. Like Jahan said, I had no idea that bees were addicted to sugar. It is cool how the honey turns on a gene that helps fight off a toxin. It makes sense that these toxins would be found in pesticides that are found in flowers. Overall, I think it is cool how the bees are getting food and fighting off toxins.
This is very interesting. At the beginning of the article it says their weakness is sugar, but actually their weakness is beneficial for them. When bees encounter harmful chemicals on flowers the honey that they are addicted to helps fight of the poison. If the human body had this ability, maybe we would not be suffering from harmful diseases as much. In conclusion, I am amazed by this component of honey. It is amazing that it can help heal the damage that our pestisides have made.
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