"Bees' nest"?!!! WTF!!!

[Benjamin Barrett]

On Feb 19, 2012, at 8:58 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> I got stung a number of times, but never learned the difference.
>
> IMO, the difference isn't a matter of learning. They don't look the
> same, so what's to learn? You may not know that a certain type of car
> bears the marque, Volkswagen, whereas another type of car bears the
> marque, Porsche, but the most casual glance tells you that they're not
> non-distinct, even though, as far as you're concerned, they're both
> merely "cars." Or not.

Fair enough. Probably what I didn't learn was to identify yellowjackets as wasps. As for other types of wasps, I don't know... BB

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