…Why did they pour it into a contact lens though?
Better adhesion
Honey is great, but probably my favorite most interesting bug byproduct is shellac.
chitin&chitosan
research
TLDR: “Chitosan and derivatives have been explored in the development of nanomaterials, bioadhesives, wound dressing materials, improved drug delivery systems, enteric coatings, and in medical devices.”
Second strong contender is a particular
termite’sant’s poop which lives in the jungle and is also mostly sugar.EDIT: I misremembered, it’s an ant. Here’s a neat article about it.
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Link?
Honey is not vomit as it does not reach the stomach. They store it in a special chamber in their esophagus.
Honey is the result of bees deepthroating nectar then spitting it out.
https://busybeekeeping.com/is-honey-bee-poop-or-bee-vomit-heres-the-truth/So like when a bird regurgitates for their young.
I have a parrot and sometimes he attempts to feed me from his crop storage, it’s gross.
I have a parrot and sometimes he attempts to feed me from his crop storage, it’s gross.
I imagine it’s like a grandma that doesn’t cook well.
Gross. But also not much grosser than eating off delicious animal corpses.
Cat poop coffee is still the grossest food. Well, maybe this one cheese with live maggots jumping into your face while eating it has it beat.
Would you like dirty bean water or dirty leaf water with your charred carrion, sir?
Actually, can I see the old, rotten fruit liquid list please?
Sorry, we only have a selection of carbonated mould water.
I’ll just have the boiled plant mash filtered through compost.
I’ll have the carbonated fish and wildlife piss filtered through rock procured at a price the fraction of the household supply sold at 10x the price to the detriment of the ecology please.
Wait, what’s this?
My guess is whisky
Yes, so far… Hehehe
