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

[Victor Steinbok]

No, Ron. We are all aspiring gadflies... in your soup.

     VS-)

On 2/20/2012 12:42 PM, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
> Is this some kind of parable or allegory for various ADS-L members, past and present?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Feb 19, 2012, at 11:47 PM, Wilson Gray<hwgray at GMAIL.COM>  wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at yale.edu>  wrote:
>>> a bee will die after it stings you because its stinger will be given up for the pleasure of the act and it can't live without its stinger, while a yellowjacket or other wasp can keep stinging you as long its little heart desires.
>> It's true, all right. A bee's stinger has barbs that keep it from
>> being withdrawn. So, when the bee flies off after delivering the
>> sting, the poor thing's guts are torn out and it dies of the injury.
>> Hence, bees sting only when the situation is do - or die, anyway.
>> Bee-venom "cures" merely kill a lot of bees for nothing. OTOH, wasps'
>> and hornets' stingers are smooth. So, a wasp or a hornet can sting you
>> until it's out of venom, merely because you're unknowingly standing in
>> its flight path back to the wasphive or the hornethive, and suffer no
>> ill effects. Unless you swat it, of course.
>>
>> --
>> -Wilson

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