I was simply thinking that "having IR" might be the same as "emitting 
IR" in which case the caution against eating honey would be that the 
emitter might get stung by the bees. It seems to me that this is more 
likely to happen to UV emitters since UV is one of the things bees use 
to navigate (IR is mostly useless for navigation for diurnal creatures 
like bees.) On the other hand, I might just have missed the point :-p

BTW, you missed a few: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IR


Domhnall Seaghdha wrote:
> I truly l hope that SOMEONE lets (the rest of) us (who don't know) 
> what IR is...  As I've already "got" ADHD, OCD and AS, know that it's 
> not polite to discuss BMs, decidely do NOT 'like' the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. 
> Act (so-called), and often have more than a wee bit of trubble minding 
> my own Ps and Qs, I git mesilf a little nervous when more 'letters' 
> come around or pop up -- at least when they're not IDed.
>
> IR been in a kwan tree a-tryin' to figger out just what it might mean, 
> and I strongly suspician that it ain't  Indian rhino, irridated 
> raccoon, Irish rooster, internal rectilophage, ironic refutations, 
> etc., OR impulsivity rules, either.   For the ten+ years I lived in 
> Iran, I had an encircled IR stuck onto the surface just left of my 
> back-lights.
>
> THIS from some one who's got a couple of bee hives hibernating up in 
> the apple orchard.  I think that honeybees (and probably good dobees, 
> as well) are 'sensitive' to the ultra-violet [ UV ] spectra of light, 
> and pawsiblee the infra-red ones [ IR ], as well.
>
> Surely that is FAR TOO SIMPLE an interpretation of the afore-mentioned 
> IR first told to Debby...
>
> ?????
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Sroka" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 February, 2006 3:50 PM
> Subject: Re: cautionary (paleo) foods
>
>
>> Susan Carmack wrote:
>>> Hi Debby,
>>> Honey should definitely be used only in
>>>> small amounts and not by those with IR either.
>>>
>>> Please tell what is IR?
>> Hey, I thought that honey bees responded to UV not IR?? :-> 
>
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>