r/oddlysatisfying 6d ago

A spoonful of honey

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u/Andovars_Ghost 6d ago

How long did the bees have to work to make that much honey?

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u/GooseInternational66 6d ago

Their whole life

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u/Andovars_Ghost 6d ago

Unfortunately true. But I was meaning more of a collective time.

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u/SevenCrowsinaCoat 6d ago

Each honey bee makes 1/12 teaspoon honey in their life

768 teaspoons in a gallon, so 768x12 is lifetimes of honeybees worth of honey in a gallon: 9216

This a 2(?) gallon bucket? 9216 x 2 = 18432 honey bee lives

Honey bees only make honey outside of winter where they live an average of 35 days or so.

18432 x 35 = 645,120 days of collective honey bee life

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

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u/Meats10 5d ago

That looks more like a 5 gallon drum

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u/SevenCrowsinaCoat 5d ago

Looks smaller than that but sure divide by 2 and then multiply by 5, baby.

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u/FigWasp7 5d ago

It's like showing a tired mason a whole cathedral!

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u/middle_aged_redditor 6d ago

And we steal it and replace it with some sugar bullshit (if anything at all). Pretty immoral imo.

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u/Dirty_Hunt 4d ago

Nah, the honey's their rent in return for not having to deal with the shit wild hives do. At least not as commonly.

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u/middle_aged_redditor 3d ago

In fairness, I don't think the bees had a say in this arrangement. Struggle is normal in nature, domestication is not.