Honey is great for drizzling over toast, stirring into tea, and many other uses. What most people don't know is that during the trip from the flower in the field to the jar on your table, honey spends a lot of time in a bee's gut. This video describes honey's physiological production process.
Honey is Really Bee Puke
As the saying goes, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. But can you? This video explains the chemistry behind why fruit flies love vinegar so much that some entomologists call them “vinegar flies.”
How Can You Catch Fruit Flies?
Why do wasps become more aggressive after you kill a hive member? The answer is the same reason as why you should be wary of bees that smell like bananas. This short video uses chemistry to explain that statement.
Why Do Wasps Attack?
Diseases from mosquito bites kill hundreds of thousands of people every year worldwide. In 2015, another mosquito-borne illness began to make headlines: the once-rare Zika virus. The virus spread throughout Brazil, and the World Health Organization declared Zika a public health emergency. This video provides an overview of Zika virus, as well as some tips on how to prevent it.
Zika, Mosquitoes, and How to Not Get Bitten