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  • BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzHoney
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    2 days ago

    To expand on this… Part of what happens to the nectar inside the bee’s honey crop is the addition of various enzymes (IIRC invertase is one. I don’t recall any of the others) that modify the sugars and other compounds in the nectar.

    So nectar goes in, the result of nectar + enzymes comes out, then it’s dried until the moisture content is low enough (~18% is what I was told as a beekeeper. Who knows how the bees measure it…)



  • We used to feed our cats almost entirely dry food, with wet food as an occasional treat (no real schedule for wet, just every now and then).

    But over the years we’ve had a number of cats that had health issues that were mitigated by switching to mostly wet food.

    So now it’s reversed- almost entirely wet food with dry food occasionally (every couple of days or so). At least, for our indoor cats.

    We also take care of a feral colony (many of which we’ve TNR’d), and those cats get dry food for logistical and cost reasons.




  • To piggyback on this comment - if you normally use store-bought tortillas, try making your own instead. They’re easy and cheap to make, and taste way better IMO. (Plus they won’t have all the preservatives and other additives).

    All you need is flour, a fat (traditionally lard, but I’ve also used butter, ghee, olive oil, or bacon grease with good success), some salt, water, and a skillet or griddle. Some people also use baking powder, but I think it’s fine without (I prefer my tortillas to be chewy rather than fluffy).


  • Interesting bee fact -

    In a hive that has been queenless for a period of time (long enough that there’s no way they can raise a replacement queen), one or more workers may develop the ability to lay unfertilized eggs.

    Due to how honeybee genetics work, those unfertilized eggs can hatch into drones (males), which may then have the opportunity to mate with queens from nearby colonies.

    I guess this is sort of a last ditch effort to propagate the hive’s genetic material before it fizzles out and dies. Which I think is fascinating.





  • I don’t have an alternative program to suggest, but there are some workarounds for using redshift.

    First, in the config file, you can set the location provider to manual, then specify a lat/lon and it will use that location in its time calculations. I do this on my laptop, and it works well except for when I cross multiple timezones - things are obviously off a bit.

    Second, with the caveat that I haven’t tried this, it looks like you can also manually set dawn/dusk times in the config, which sounds like what you’re after.

    See man 1 redshift for more info.