why does honey never go bad? how is it formed? what is its molecular composition?
Low water content (20%), high sugar content (65%), low fat content, highly acidic (pH 3.9)
This environment turns out to be highly hostile to microorganisms, giving honey its mindblowing “Immortal Preservation” property.
complex sugars include fructose (38%), glucose (31%)
Why fructose and glucose is so high in all of other complex sugars?
Fructose give honey its sweetness, and it more soluble than other sugars, preventing crystallisation.
Glucose is less sweeter, and responsible for granular structure of honey if kept over time, due to its crystalising property.
Why is honey sweet?
Why is honey so high in sugar content?
Because bees need concentrated energy to survive harsh climate conditions, and store that in minimum space.
Sugars also provide immediate energy needed to collect nectar from flowers.
Why does bees live in hexagonal hives?
Wax produced to create hive is extremely energy intensive. Honey and BeeWax is the product of millions of years of evolution.
“Honeycomb Conjecture”: Hexagons have highest area to perimeter ratio in polygons. This means you can fit maximum content inside while taking same amount of length as any other polygon.
Hexagon tessellate perfectly.
Lifespan of honeybees?
How much does a honeybee travel in its lifetime?
Does a hive have social or hierarchical structure? Or does queen command every worker bee?
Can a queen change its commands, or its coded inside the DNA to protect the queen?
This is like eye opener on how to model real world digitally for me. Didn’t know something like this is already possible. So, this is what google uses for street view. and it’s arguably realtime too.