Posted by partlycloudy on June 21, 2005, at 6:30:15
(grrrr - at not being able to post on the 2000 board)
I was a beekeeper in my former life - I even went to bee school at the local agricultutal college - and I can assure you that bees are interested in one thing, and one thing only - nectar. I took the course partly because I've got a bug "thing" too, and I came to love working with honeybees. Their single-mindedness, their industriousness, their abilty to keep on the task at hand even while a human is bumbling (excuse the pun) around inside their house is amazing. I got stung once when a poor bee got caught in my helmet's net on the wrong side and it panicked trying to escape. It was a particular joy to be able to give "my" honey as gifts for a long while, until poor hive management (me) and natural disaster (mites) killed the poor blighters.Now, horse flies are a different story. I don't like those at all. And in New England, around the salt marshes, we had greenhead flies, a particularly nasty variety that live up and down the East Coast, who liked to seek out shade on hot sunny days when you're at the beach, mostly on the under side of your arms and legs, where they'd take a big chunk of flesh as a thank you before flying off.
I'm afraid I can't bring myself to find any redeeming qualities about palmetto bugs, so I will skip them.
And that's all I have to say about bugs.
pc
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