"You hear 'bees' and maybe you think 'honey' or 'sting' or even 'John Belushi' if you’re old enough to recall his killer bee comedy skits from 'Saturday Night Live.' But every half-hour Saturday afternoon, Rufus Isaacs made the word-association between 'bees' and 'Big Mac' for audiences at Michigan State University’s first Bee-Palooza.
"To explain the value of bees in everyday life, Isaacs, a professor of entomology, focused on the sometimes unfamiliar relationships between bees and some of Michigan residents’ favorite foods.
"The all-beef patties McDonald’s restaurants serve by the billions? Isaac linked the beef to cows, and the cows to the alfalfa upon which they might munch and the alfalfa to — you guessed it — bees in their role as pollinators of alfalfa blooms."
Bee-Palooza at MSU proves popular
Written by Steven R. Reed
On a side note, this may help explain Michigan's obesity problem... our favorite foods come from McDonald's.
"To explain the value of bees in everyday life, Isaacs, a professor of entomology, focused on the sometimes unfamiliar relationships between bees and some of Michigan residents’ favorite foods.
"The all-beef patties McDonald’s restaurants serve by the billions? Isaac linked the beef to cows, and the cows to the alfalfa upon which they might munch and the alfalfa to — you guessed it — bees in their role as pollinators of alfalfa blooms."
Bee-Palooza at MSU proves popular
Written by Steven R. Reed
On a side note, this may help explain Michigan's obesity problem... our favorite foods come from McDonald's.
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