Meet the psychedelic honey-hunters of Nepal
by Mark Frauenfelder from on (#QZ7J)
https://youtu.be/Y_b2i_FvYPw
"One month a year, giant Himalayan bees, the biggest bees in the world, come to collect nectar from a poisonous flower, giving the honey they make certain medicinal, aphrodisiac, and hallucinogenic properties."
In this short documentary, filmmaker Raphael Treza meets with a Nepalese tribe to learn about this honey, and how they use it. During the making of the film, the translator eats too much of the honey and falls unconscious.