Comments on: Bees That Drink Sweat From People's Skin and Tears From People's Eyes

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:30:30 +0000

Go back to where you came from bees.

By: JohnPA2006

JohnPA2006 — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:48:22 +0000

Remember , if bees die, we all die.
Literally. So if a bee starts to drink your eyeball juice, let it !!
Or else.

By: Basil

Basil — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:43:27 +0000

Who lets bees suck the sweat off of their eye rim?

By: Stuartg

Stuartg — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:31:54 +0000

From memory, human tears are saltier than the tears of most mammals. I seem to recall that we have similar salt concentrations to the tears of aquatic mammals rather than terrestrial mammals.

No idea about the concentration of salt in our sweat, though. Does anybody have knowledge of that?

By: Caropa

Caropa — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:59:22 +0000

@Anne
I just got the impression that because we have a lot of salt in our diets, there is just more in our bodies anyway. Therefore, there happens to be more salt in our sweat. Instead of there being a typical amount of salt in sweat, the sweat becomes more saturated.

I hope this interpretation is less irritating.

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:33:27 +0000

Sweat bees need a publicist. Terrible name, conjures up mental images of bees flying around in t-shirts, sweating under 3 pairs of armpits!

By: George

George — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:15:14 +0000

“Prometheus, are you seeing this?”

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:37:00 +0000

From my understanding, the salt in sweat is part of how the sweat glands function. It’s not a disposal method for excess salt, the presence of salt is required in the sweat glands as part of the osmosis process itself. The attribution of salt in the sweat to an excess of it in the diet isn’t correct. It’s a bit of cultural bias on the Wall Street Journal writer’s part. It’s fashionable to vilify people’s eating habits but it’s sloppy to see that implied causality in the quote. It’s very irritating.

By: Tandem

Tandem — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:05:06 +0000

Makes my eyes water just reading this.

By: fashion Boots

fashion Boots — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:12:15 +0000

your kidding they actually have honey that is “human sorrow” no thank you LOL –my question would be how do they know is from humans? who is going to let bees get on them and drink their sweat and tears?