Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 19, 2024

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    pearlsbs  5 months ago

    I bet that beer will really give you a buzz.

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    The Duke  5 months ago

    Bee healthy! Eat your Honey!

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    PaulAbbott2  5 months ago

    Welcome to Ripley’s Bee-lieve It Or Not

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    6turtle9  5 months ago

    The bee beer is unsurprising. I’ve seen alcohol made with stranger things, like rattlesnake tequila, Chicha, which is corn chewed to a pulp by Andean women and left to ferment in clay jars, or seagull wine (yup that’s a real thing, thanks Eskimo’s.)

    Also, the venom of bee’s and snakes and other creatures have been found to have medicinal properties.

    Like the Blue banded bees, carpenter bees are also solitary.

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    Pickled Pete  5 months ago
    My wife got stung by a bee on the forehead. She’s at the ER now, her face all swollen and bruised, she almost died.

    Luckily I was close enough to hit the bee with my shovel.

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    jessebob42  5 months ago

    Making beer from honey is a fantastic idea. But from killer bees is just plain stupid. Ask anyone who’s survived an attack. I mean ‘Killer’ is in the name. Because they swarm and kill you or anything that disturbs their nest. Mistakes will be made.

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    mindjob  5 months ago

    They might be talking about bee pollen which is a mixture of flower pollen, nectar (a sweet watery plant substance), and bee saliva (spit) packed into the hive. Bee pollen has roughly 250 substances, which are thought to work together.

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    poppacapsmokeblower  5 months ago

    Observation: it doesn’t say killer bee VENOM extract, does it?

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    daisypekin01  5 months ago

    an extract of their venom, or the bee itself? do they squish them to get the extract?

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    kaycstamper  5 months ago

    Those look like yellow jackets, what we deal with. One stung my puppy on the eye, it swelled shut, couldn’t get him seen by a vet, ice pack helped, and have him on benedryl.

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    Teto85 Premium Member 5 months ago

    I have had mead, which is made from fermented honey and water. Some has been pretty good. Other has been “meh.”

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    moondog42 Premium Member 5 months ago

    We could be sleeping in the flowers. We could sleep all afternoon. You proclaim that you’re an island, I proclaim that I’m one too

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    pearlsbs  5 months ago

    It’s actually not the honey they are referring to as the extract. It’s from a brewers yeast that they found in the killer bee.

    bbc.com/news/articles/c4n1nn1z649o

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    richardclayton1000  5 months ago

    Is killer bee extract another name for honey?

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