Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[Beekissed]

Quote: Did you even watch it? That was clearly a honeybee and it was clearly on a corn tassel and it was most clearly gathering pollen. They can SAY anything on a YT vid but it's much harder to produce a fake honeybee working on a fake corn tassel. It happens and it happens all the time and since the discussion included a disclaimer that stated that honeybees don't work on corn, then I'd say the vid was most relevant as a recording of living proof that they do indeed work corn and gather pollen from it. IMHO

 

[duluthralphie]

I started the video, I saw it was a propaganda video with no scientific basis and shut it down. It was not worth my time to watch it.

If I see sparrows setting on high lines wires that does not mean they are gathering wire them.

I have seen butterflies on tree branches that does not mean they are gathering wood.

I even saw a deer standing in the middle of a asphalt road, and I am pretty sure it was not eating the asphalt, I know the asphalt would have hurt it had it eaten it.

Honeybees may find a nugget of something on a corn. I bet honeybees could even find some sugar from a scratch or cut on the leaves or stalk. I know as a fact some bees will eat on corn where the husk has been opened and the starches are exposed, that does not mean they are pollinating the plant.

I will say as a fact a honeybee does nothing towards pollinating the plant.

Further, just because a honeybee is sitting on a tassel does not mean the "pink stuff" on the seed is going to kill or even affect the bee. That little fungicide is most likely dissipated long before the plant reaches tasseling age.



I have never de-tasseled corn like Blooey has so I will concede to her the bees were there. I guess I thought the whole discussion was the "pink" on the seeds killing the honeybees.

 

[Hinotori]

When was the last time you saw a honey bee on a corn tassel?

I thought corn was wind pollinated. That's why you have to plant in blocks.

 

[duluthralphie]

I thought corn was wind pollinated. That's why you have to plant in blocks.

Correct

 

[Beekissed]

Propaganda?

Methinks someone is a tad paranoid..... It was merely a honeybee gathering pollen and I heard or read nothing about any push for any one thing...it was just a video showing a bee on corn by a fella in OH. Nothing more and nothing less. And that bee wasn't "standing" on it...I don't know if you know much about bees, but that was definitely gathering behavior. And that was on field corn, no less.

I've planted sweet corn for over 40 yrs now and can attest that honeybees do work the corn. Who gives a flying fig about the pink stuff on a kernel? The fact remains that honeybees do collect corn pollen and as such do in fact pollinate corn in this manner, even if wind is the main pollinator of that crop. The wind is the main pollinator of many crops but it doesn't negate the fact that honeybees and other bees do pollinate them as well.

 

[lazy gardener]

It's an insignificant matter whether the bee flies down to the silk after gathering the pollen. The pollen is gathered from corn, and any other plants the bee visits to take back to the hive to feed the developing larvae. The pollination is a secondary effect of the bee climbing over the plant while gathering the pollen. In perfect flowers (those flowers which contain both male and female parts in the same flower), the pollen sticking to the hairy body gets wiped off on the pistils of the same flower. In a wind pollinated plant, like corn, The bee will dislodge a lot of pollen while gathering it. It then falls down to land on the silks and pollinate the corn. Bees do not fly far and wide, with the little bee thought in their head that they are going to facilitate reproduction of our crops. They go out to gather pollen and nectar to feed the members of their colony. In the process, their hairy little bodies spread pollen from plant to plant, and fertilize our crops.

 

[Beekissed]

Correct.

 

[CrazyTalk]

And none of this has anything to do with treated seeds.

 

[Beekissed]

Doesn't have anything to do with chickens/eggs/ meat either, so maybe we should head this bus back on the main road?

 

[Blooie]

And none of this has anything to do with treated seeds.

Or with dumb things people have said about chickens.

But I look at it this way.....when I'm sitting with a friend and visiting over a cup of hot tea, very seldom do we bring something up and discuss nothing but that for the entire time we have together. We start out talking about one thing, then another, then something else totally unrelated to anything we've already talked about. This forum is a little like that in some threads. Some threads are - and should absolutely remain - totally dedicated to the question or topic at hand. Others, those that are more casual and chatty, tend to digress from time to time. To me, that's okay. It sometimes provides interesting insights about topics I'd never given any thought to, and that often leads me to do a little more investigating. Sometimes the off-topic stuff gives me a much needed giggle in the middle of a bad day. Now, like I said, that's just me - other folks hate it when a thread ventures off a topic, even if it's just a little bit. But usually if I stick around long enough it'll come back to the original reason for the thread. And I'll be a little wiser.