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Posted by rhudson on February 07, 2002 at 03:50:52 from (63.124.154.254):
In Reply to: Do bees bite or sting? posted by ole on February 05, 2002 at 18:24:32:
Hi Ole, sometimes i think that people call anything that looks threating, that flies a "bee". the incorrectness is prevelant in movies. bees do not make the hanging paper hives you always see in cartoons and movies. thats a hornet. to your question. there are no bees that i know of that bite. the common honey bee could only lick you to death with its tongue. bees are nector collectors. i have seen a hornet (the type we call a yellow jacket) cut with its teeth a tiny ball of ham from a scrap on a table. it rolled up the ball and flew away. i have always heard that the yellow jacket could and would bite as well as sting. after seeing how quickly it cut up the ham, i beleive it could. support your local beekeeper, it getting harder and more expensive to keep healthy honey bees. the ag department in our area considers the wild honey bee to play no part in polination because their numbers are so small. crop polination is performed by rental hives of bees.
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