as much food as they're consuming by the time they're seven years old. And if you look at uh even humans in huntergatherer forager cultures, they're not doing that until they're 15 years old. Um at theearliest. And my son is 27 and uh sometimes we're still
the next day or ever again. Foragers were well in tune with their environment.
The nurse bees are inside all the time, so they get really developed crawling muscles. The forager bees are flying outside of the colonies, so they actually have to learn to grow their wing muscles. And so that's actually a genetic or a morphological shift that happens in these honey bees during their life cycle.
together, the communication not only manages the new energy, it changes consciousness. Every forager , hunter society in history had oral communication. Their consciousness was mythlogical. Every single one had mythlogical consciousnesses -- no exception. When we go to the great, hydraulic, agricultural
Has anyone seen a bee on a flower? That is a female forager honey bee. So that's a worker and those are all ladies.
You got that job. I'll be a forager . I'll be a drone.
Many of you may know this already, but I'm just going to backtrack a little bit. And Sea Forager is the culmination of sort of my crazy misspent life walking the intertidal zone of this area. The intertidal zone is a fancy term for that area between high tide and low tide.
the next day or ever again. These are forager styles.
Yeah, to take over, because they have to be the fourth. This is a birch forager and producer that we met.
So all those bees that we've seen out on flowers are known as forager bees. And the foragers are in the last couple weeks of their life, typically in the spring and summer months, and they're working 24 hours a day, either out gathering nectar and pollen from flowers or inside the hive, coming back to transfer that nectar and pollen into this inner space.
But they're protecting themselves against the mosquitoes which are really vicious. But the foragers want the cloudberries so much that it's worth it. And they have this wonderfully musky flavor.
And I'm supposed to talk about my book today. And run a business called Sea Forager . Many of you may know this already, but I'm just going to backtrack a little bit.
The communication revolutions allow us to extend the central nervous system so we can bring more diverse people together across time and space. So if you are in a forager /hunter society with oral communication, and mythlogical thinking, your empathy doesn't extend beyond shouting distance -- your blood kin, your relatives -- because that's who you've got. Oral communication, forage and hunting, small spatial/temporal limits. When we go to the great, hydraulic, agricultural
And so that's actually a genetic or a morphological shift that happens in these honey bees during their life cycle. Once they're making that transition from nurse bee to forager bee, they'll actually learn their flight path and train those muscles by flying a foot away from the hive, and then three feet, and then 20 feet, and then eventually, they can actually have a five-mile flight radius in any direction.
the next day or ever again. And we've drifted more toward liberal or forager mental styles or habits.
So my last meal would be . So I understand that you're quite the forager . And I'd love to hear what you forage, and who taught you which mushrooms you can eat.
But they're protecting themselves against the mosquitoes, which are really vicious. But they want, the foragers want the cloudberries so much, that it's worth it. And we're going to just like, slicing.
Move on. And that is the final job they do before they begin to take flight. So all those bees that we've seen out on flowers are known as forager bees. And the foragers are in the last couple weeks of their life, typically in the spring and summer months, and they're working 24 hours a day,
So empathy is part of gaining power. They're where anthropologists go and live with hunter-gatherer societies or foragers .
But it gets weirder. And I said, "So Leighton, you're not a forager . You're not a fisherman and you're not a marine biologist.
the next day or ever again. And so originally, say, foragers were relatively liberal.
We were pretty proud. After we had gone-- so when a swarm is looking for a new home, they settle and they send out forager bees to try to find a new home.
either out gathering nectar and pollen from flowers or inside the hive, coming back to transfer that nectar and pollen into this inner space. And there's actually a really interesting morphological shift that happens in the body of the honey bee as they move from a nurse bee into a forager bee. The nurse bees are inside all the time, so they get really developed crawling muscles.
And she'll do that up to three times a day. So if we have a colony of bees that's, let's say, 100,000 bees, which is an average-sized colony, 50% of which are forager bees, each of those bees are pollinating 1,500 flowers a day.
Get up every 10 minutes or so. So this is a measure, for example, of grip strength in England for men and women, compared to a group of foragers in the Amazon, the Aché.
So I understand that you're quite the forager . And I'd love to hear what you forage, and who taught you which mushrooms you can eat.