Posted on 01/12/2020 8:45:57 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
I had almond milk today.
Well, actually I made cream of chicken soup from a Campbell’s condensed soup can. And the choice was between almond milk and water since I didn’t have regular milk. So I went half almond milk and half water.
And since it was unsweetened almond milk, I added a squirt of liquid stevia. It was bizarrely sweet but still edible.
I had no idea I was causing unprotected sex among bees.
I really don’t want to be responsible for the bee slutpocalypse. But weren’t bees dying out. Don’t we want them to reproduce with abandon?
Maybe I caused the bee slutbabyboom. My consumption of almond milk may have been the equivanlent of the 1965 New York power outage.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
I had no idea I was causing unprotected sex among bees.
Yes!
OK if between consenting adult male and female bees!
Unsure about the drone/queen bee thing?
The drones’ main function is to be ready to fertilize a receptive queen. Drones in a hive do not usually mate with a virgin queen of the same hive because the queen flies further to a drone congregation area than the drones do. Mating generally takes place in or near drone congregation areas. How these areas are selected is poorly understood, but they do exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)
For planning Municipalities and utility districts, we generally use 400gpd (gallons per day) for water reservoirs. 200 gpd is not abnormal for industrial use and fire flow planning. 100 gpd is a normal operating condition. CA is mandating 52.5 gpd for drought identified areas, to be reduced to 50 gpd by 2030.
This is stupid because the wastewater collection systems generally require 2.0 gpf toilet, though many function at 1.5 to 1.0 gpf (gallons per flush). The sewer lines need to be purged or they clog up and solids harden up inside them. Far less expensive to flush twice than digging up your sewer lines.
They work when it is colder so I keep them around to make sure my trees get pollinated even if the honey bees are not inclined to get up and at 'em. The nesting place is just a box with little tubes, soda straws work fine and you just pick them up when full and put them inside the shed to wait for spring.
No honey but at that point the trees are what matter.
There is plenty of time in the summer for the honey bees to do their job.
You can't move masons around from what I understand but they require so little care that keeping your own batch would probably be cheaper then hiring honey bees.
Never understood why they don’t use mason bees.
Something fun for the grand kids!
And they are fun to watch too. Not that I have a great deal of time for watching at that time of year but when I do I take as much pleasure in it as I do watching the birds.
And they do not sting. So you can keep them close to the house or even in the city it you have a garden.
“Humans use 100 gallons of water a day.”
When we speak of almond production and water we are comparing gallons almond growing consumes versus water other plans require. Almond trees are very thirsty and require a lot more gallons per pound of almonds than most other plants do on a per pound produced. But you silly choose to compare almonds to humans, which is actually off topic as it has zero to do with comparing water consumption in agriculture products.
Not angry.
I think it is wrong and stupid to bastardize the language just to satisfy some business sales job.
Milk is what mammals make from mammary glands. Milk is what mammal mothers make for their babies. Milk is what we drink from our mothers when we are babies. As we get older if we continue to drink milk we drink milk produced by other mammals, usually cows. Milk we do not get from almonds, rice, soy or other plants, no matter what some commercial interest tries to sell us.
For almonds they could actually correctly call it almond juice, for that’s what it is. For rice and soy they should just invent some other name and quit giving it the attribute of “milk” which it is not.
The use of rice milk is the as the use of cow or goat milk.
Your body does not think so.
Yeah, I can’t do dairy, makes me sick.
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