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The things we'd do for chocolate.. 🤤 RT if you can relate 🍫 #WorldChocolateDay #SpongeBob
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feliz día mundial del chocolate! #WorldChocolateDay pero... ¿qué tiene que ver el chocolate con las moscas? básicamente todo! ¿sabías que la flor de la Cocoa, materia prima indispensable para producir Chocolate, es casi exclusivamente polinizada por mosquitos? lee este hilo -->
el cacao (Theobroma cacao) es un árbol tropical cuya flor, aparentemente, es de fácil acceso para los polinizadores, diversos en los trópicos. Pero el polen de esta flor no está disponible para los polinizadores más grandes, sino que para aquellos de cuerpo más pequeño -->
¿cuáles moscas llevan a cabo este proceso? unos pequeños mosquitos entre 1 y 3 mm de la familia ceratopongonidae y del género Forcypomyia principalmente. Son insectos activos desde muy temprano, ya que la flor de cacao abre al atardecer, florece en la noche y está lista en mañana
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On the occasion of #WorldChocolateDay , a brief thread on history and evolution of the modern 'chocolate' which has become an incredibly important aspect of people's lives across the world! (1/10)
When most of us hear the word chocolate, we picture a bar or a box of candies. The verb that comes to mind is probably "eat," not "drink," and the most apt adjective is "sweet." But for about 90 percent of chocolate's long history, it was strictly a beverage (2/)
Chocolate originated in Mesoamerica (modern day South america) by the Mayans and Aztecs using the cacao beans to create a bitter drink often mixed with chillies. The Aztecs believed that chocolate was gift from god of wisdom and used the drink in all major rituals (3/)
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