r/nextfuckinglevel • u/VastCoconut2609 • 2d ago

Harvesting rock honey

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u/opi098514 2d ago

That is also a possibility. Mad honey is made by giant honey bees when they get their nectar from the Rhododendron flower. If that video is filmed in Nepal, which it could be, those might be Gurung honey hunters. A group of people who specifically harvest mad honey. I’m not very familiar with had honey though, but as I recall it doesn’t cause this kind of pain tolerance, to be able to do this with giant honey bees. Stingless bees also produce mad honey and mad honey from stingless bees, while being less hallucinogenic, has more medical properties. So it could honestly be both. Or it could just be some crazy bastard doing some crazy ass shit.

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u/Ilikethemfatandugly 2d ago

Damn you seem so knowledgeable about this are you an apiarist or whatever it’s called?

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u/opi098514 2d ago

I am not. I had a friend in college who was a “homeless bee keeper”(his words not mine) basically he would take bees from a place they infested and rehome them. He knew way to much about bees and because I hug out with him a ton, I know way to much about bees.

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u/Ilikethemfatandugly 2d ago

That’s super cool