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

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/19/2012 11:47 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>merely because you're unknowingly standing in
>its flight path back to the wasphive or the hornethive, and suffer no
>ill effects.

Aha -- even Wilson betrays some conflation of bees and
wasps/hornets.  Only bees have hives -- wasps and hornets have
nests.  (A bee can have a nest too, if it's not provided by a
human.  But that isn't in question here.)

Unless he's pulling one of our six legs.

:-)
Joel

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