But then what's your next assumption? This is the only source of sugar apart from fruit, I'd be stung to death if I collected a wild colony, what if I just put these maggots in a box until they become bees and then I'll have lots of honey without going through all the trouble of suiting up and smoking them out.
The peoole writing this shit arent agricultural workers, theyre basically medieval shitposters. Got a wild speculation? Dont waste your time investigating it, just put it to print!
Mendel was a monk for a reason. It's a job that puts you in close contact with nature but in a more comfortable position than a farmer so you have the time to think about things. A lot of monasteries kept bees for extra income and were the scriptoriums producing stuff like this. Of all the agricultural knowledge that seems like it would be accurate in that era, you'd think it would be stuff they're in such close proximity to.
also, what kind of man keeps boxes with slugs and worms and creepy crawlies in them in some intentional manner that feels, to me an authority figure, ritualistic?
A WARLOCK in league with THE DEVIL.
burn him! take all his shit and turn his family out into the streets!
Some dude say fly larva in a carcass, saw flies around the carcass, and assumed bees are just flies.
But then what's your next assumption? This is the only source of sugar apart from fruit, I'd be stung to death if I collected a wild colony, what if I just put these maggots in a box until they become bees and then I'll have lots of honey without going through all the trouble of suiting up and smoking them out.
The peoole writing this shit arent agricultural workers, theyre basically medieval shitposters. Got a wild speculation? Dont waste your time investigating it, just put it to print!
Mendel was a monk for a reason. It's a job that puts you in close contact with nature but in a more comfortable position than a farmer so you have the time to think about things. A lot of monasteries kept bees for extra income and were the scriptoriums producing stuff like this. Of all the agricultural knowledge that seems like it would be accurate in that era, you'd think it would be stuff they're in such close proximity to.
also, what kind of man keeps boxes with slugs and worms and creepy crawlies in them in some intentional manner that feels, to me an authority figure, ritualistic?
A WARLOCK in league with THE DEVIL.
burn him! take all his shit and turn his family out into the streets!