Is it true about bees?

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  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    dunkman wrote:
    i lost my wasp sting cherry last Sunday..

    34 years of life and i'd never been stung.

    little fuckers
    They're assholes for sure.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Rygar wrote:
    They're assholes for sure.


    damn straight!!


    i always thought i'd be funny if Sting was allergic to being stung... and Madonna was allergic to religious iconography... ok not funny but mildly amusing...
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    ClimberInOz wrote:
    Only a few species of Bees die when they sting you (out of 20 000). Those that do have barbs on their stingers that hook into your tissue. Unfortunately for the bees, when the stinger is lodged and they fly away, they tend to leave the majority of their gut behind as well as the stinger.

    The entire reason why this works on an evolutionary level is because you need to think of it at a colony level, and not at an individual bee level.

    A queen bee will lay two different types of eggs- unfertalised and fertalised. Unfertalised eggs develop into drones, which are capable of reproducing. Fertalised eggs develop into worker bees which are not capable of reproducing.

    Now it is the worker bees that sting and die, but since they are already sterile, their evolutionary pathway has already been cut off. But their being able to sting is of benifit to the colony and the queen bee, as it can protect the colony.

    So the gene for stinging and dying is subject to natural selection... just at a queen bee/colony level, not at the worker bee level.

    When this evolutionary pathway developed, those queen bees that produced stinging workers would have had an evolutionary advantage over those that didn't, and therefore it was their genes that passed from generation to generation.

    wow. you're one of those guys that has a giant bee beard arent you? :D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    bees are harmless.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EF-00HAsVA
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    dunkman wrote:
    damn straight!!


    i always thought i'd be funny if Sting was allergic to being stung... and Madonna was allergic to religious iconography... ok not funny but mildly amusing...
    Yeah, I could laugh at that.


    I remember once I was standing on a spot where some wasps had built their nest in the ground (why they did it right under my feet is beyond me) and they swarmed me and got in my pant legs. Didn't make it all the way to the equator, but they were in the legs for a long time.
    That was a bad day.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    dunkman wrote:
    damn straight!!


    i always thought i'd be funny if Sting was allergic to being stung... and Madonna was allergic to religious iconography... ok not funny but mildly amusing...

    LOL and if George Michael was allergic to gay men... Robert Palmer was allergic to stop-motion animation...
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Rygar wrote:
    Yeah, I could laugh at that.


    I remember once I was standing on a spot where some wasps had built their nest in the ground (why they did it right under my feet is beyond me) and they swarmed me and got in my pant legs. Didn't make it all the way to the equator, but they were in the legs for a long time.
    That was a bad day.

    oh thats sounds pretty bad.. the equator :D.... yeah dont want your longitude being stung! :D

    so Muhammed Ali would also be allergic to muslims, Michael J Fox would be allergic to foxes and OJ Simpson would be allergic to brutally slaughtering people.

    ok i'll stop that now.

    although i'll probably keep doing them in my head and just giggle to myself at work. :o
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    dunkman wrote:
    oh thats sounds pretty bad.. the equator :D.... yeah dont want your longitude being stung! :D

    so Muhammed Ali would also be allergic to muslims, Michael J Fox would be allergic to foxes and OJ Simpson would be allergic to brutally slaughtering people.

    ok i'll stop that now.

    although i'll probably keep doing them in my head and just giggle to myself at work. :o

    As long as you share em with me... I'm laughing here :D
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    As long as you share em with me... I'm laughing here :D
    Seconded.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Joan Rivers would be allergic to 16 year old female revolutionaries from France, and yeah ok, rivers... Tom Cruise would be allergic to the 70's tv show The Love Boat and scots actor luvvie Alan Cumming would be allergic to porn


    edit: there must be a stupid thread idea in this somewhere. Silly allergies for famous people... i'm so shit at titles :D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    dunkman wrote:
    Joan Rivers would be allergic to 16 year old female revolutionaries from France, and yeah ok, rivers... Tom Cruise would be allergic to the 70's tv show The Love Boat and scots actor luvvie Alan Cumming would be allergic to porn


    edit: there must be a stupid thread idea in this somewhere. Silly allergies for famous people... i'm so shit at titles :D

    Do it!! :D
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison

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