Big cats - and honeybees???

[bontbee]

Did anyone else think that the insects buzzing around the carcase were honeybees?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcone at about 20.15

If they were bees, it's the most bizarre forage......though I guess, as the old saying goes, beggars can't bee choosers.

Fab programmes, even if there weren't any bees!

 

[Fritillary]

Yes! I thought that too. I hoped they'd tell us more.
But there will have been much needed moisture - and minerals - there, I thought.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Judges 14:14 anyone ?

 

[Fritillary]

Is that the syrup tin bit?

 

[Millet]

All i get from the link is a news article about child abuse which i really realty do not want to see..

 

[bontbee]

Judges 14:14 anyone ?

Wasn't the lion the strong?

All i get from the link is a news article about child abuse which i really realty do not want to see..

Sorry Millet. I posted the link while the programme was being aired, so the link now takes you whatever is being shown at the time. My apologies. Try this link, at about 12 mins
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09p26p3/big-cats-series-1-episode-2

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Is that the syrup tin bit?

Yup - Abraham Lyle was deeply religious and based the logo on the tin on the story of Samson killing a lion on his way to the land of the Philistines to find a wife - on his way back he found that a swarm of bees had colonised the rotting carcass and there was honey there. He later used that experience to pose a riddle at a wedding. "Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness"
They don't know whether the phrase 'out of the strong came forth sweetness' which is on the tin was a reference to the strength of the tin or the company.

 

[Millet]

Wasn't the lion the strong?




Sorry Millet. I posted the link while the programme was being aired, so the link now takes you whatever is being shown at the time. My apologies. Try this link, at about 12 mins
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09p26p3/big-cats-series-1-episode-2

That one worked ok.. ..the only reasonable explanation i can think of is the bees where gathering moisture from the decaying carcass.

 

[colinc]

Yup - Abraham Lyle was deeply religious and based the logo on the tin on the story of Samson killing a lion on his way to the land of the Philistines to find a wife - on his way back he found that a swarm of bees had colonised the rotting carcass and there was honey there. He later used that experience to pose a riddle at a wedding. "Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness"

They don't know whether the phrase 'out of the strong came forth sweetness' which is on the tin was a reference to the strength of the tin or the company.

That is the Wikipedia suggestion but maybe he was referencing the slaves working on the plantations for their strength. Unlikely but you never know.....


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[jenkinsbrynmair]

That is the Wikipedia suggestion but maybe he was referencing the slaves working on the plantations for their strength. Unlikely but you never know.....


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Nothing changes with Tate and Lyle - apart from the fact that any morals and principles they once held have gone out of the window - now being wholly American owned and using near to slave labour to produce their sugar.
Buy British I say - and support British farmers.

 

[bontbee]

That one worked ok.. ..the only reasonable explanation i can think of is the bees where gathering moisture from the decaying carcass.

Goodo!

Apart from taking moisture/salts from the carcase, I wonder where the nest is located, and what "normal" forage is available . Perhaps there is a fertile oasis with a resident beekeeper, just out of shot...!

Any idea of the species???

 

[Millet]

Goodo!

Apart from taking moisture/salts from the carcase, I wonder where the nest is located, and what "normal" forage is available . Perhaps there is a fertile oasis with a resident beekeeper, just out of shot...!

Any idea of the species???

African maybe ..

 

[For want of a better word]

Goodo!

Apart from taking moisture/salts from the carcase, I wonder where the nest is located, and what "normal" forage is available . Perhaps there is a fertile oasis with a resident beekeeper, just out of shot...!

Any idea of the species???

Apis mellifera syriaca

Also known as Holy bees

Wassail

 

[Erichalfbee]

Apis mellifera syriaca

Also known as Holy bees

Wassail

In Namibia?

 

[For want of a better word]

In Namibia?

I was referring to Judges 14:14!

Nos da

 

[Erichalfbee]

I was referring to Judges 14:14!

Nos da

Oooops

 

[olriley]

Funny, I was listening to this excellent album just yesterday.