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Geo Imirie stated:
>BEES LIKE DIRTY WATER.
It's a sidelight, but so do people.
In some third-world aid projects, people presented with pure water
piped into their village for the first time complain that it 'lacks body'.
> Bees want
>the minerals found in "dirty" water.
Has it been researched which components of the dirty water they
want? I doubt it.
Can I slap in the good story of Paul Ehrlich's tapeworm? The
famous Stanford prof before going on research in the remote tropics a
couple decades ago swallowed a couple segments of a selected tapeworm sp.
Once in the white man's graveyard he drank & ate like the natives, and
experienced no gut problems. Upon returning to Stanford he took a
purgative and shat a 13m tapeworm. The inference is that the tapeworm is a
symbiont, protecting us from various pathogens; only if the human falls
upon hard times does it become a drawback that the worm gets first claim on
what you eat.
I imagine the bee gut may well contain similar (presumably
microbial) endosymbionts. Why bother with non-nutritious pure water when
you can get it fortified by organic components that your internal team will
process to advantage? Minerals may well be among the paydirt, but I
suspect organic materials are also.
BTW, while on the search for negatively- or positively-charged
water, watch out for striped paint too. And make sure the water has no
electrical connection to earth.
R
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