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Knarik
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Dec 06, 2009 04:31PM
I need help! I have to find some information and I can't find it on Internet! So I don't know whom else to ask but you. I need some information about how many people in the USA are being stung by bees, or the percentage of people who were stung,national statistics... something, anything!!!!!
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Thanks Bun. We were doing a project about how many students were stung at our college compus, and the teacher now wants us to compare it with national statistics.
"Other Hymenoptera account for more than 1 million stings annually".I will use this, as I can't find anything more accurate. thank you very-very much!
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That is all I have to say on the subject.
Well ... there are bees -- and there are bees. Wasps and yellow jackets, in my experience can be quite aggressive, no matter what you do around them. Honey bees (the common Italian variety we normally see in this country) rarely become aggressive.Africanized honey bees, though, are a different story.
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Interesting. Maybe you're a goddess or something.
well isn't this thread just the bees knees
I thought Utah was the beehive state, not Indianer.
bun knows everything. her wealth of info never ceases to amaze me
I want Bun on my team for Trivial Pursuit!I was stung by a bee once. On my butt. Yes, my pants were too low and I accidentally tried sitting on a bee. It's only really memorable because instead of saying something American like "shit" or "what the fuck", I stood up and yelled in Tibetan: "ATTSAAA!", their version of "ouch."
The banter on this thread is why I am in this group.
Oh my, yes. Wait! Knarik is a goddess, too! She's an Armenian goddess (Astghik, Knarik?).
Yellowjackets and hornets never used to bother me much at all, either me being afraid or them buzzing at me. Until I was deadheading my rhodies and inadvertently got near a nest 14 years ago and got stung. And blew up, necessitating a trip to the ER, while I was pregnant. And discovered I was fatally allergic to them. Then they could smell my fear and started to follow me everywhere! I hates them.I was just entering my second trimester too, and the doctor at the ER was hesitant about administering epinephrine, something to be avoided during the first trimester. I knew I was a couple of days into my second trimester because I knew exactly the minute of conception, I could feel it. I needed 2 high doses of it too. I always wonder if this is why Jake turned out to be sooooo active!
Larry wrote: "Oh my, yes. Wait! Knarik is a goddess, too! She's an Armenian goddess (Astghik, Knarik?). "Astghik- the goddess of beauty, nature and love. This was the best compliment I have ever received! (: There are so many beautiful legends about her!
Yes, Holy Blow-up Bees Lori! How frightening. Bees love me. I don't know if I smell different or what but they follow me around come Spring until Fall (my Grandma once told me it was because I had sweeter blood - hmmmm). I've gotten used to them, but hornets & wasps scare the dickens outta me. At least I'm not allergic.
Sweeter blood! My grandma was telling me the same!
First, I love when people bring us their school project questions and we get really excited about them.Second, I think Astghik is a fascinating name for a goddess of beauty, nature, and love.
Third, I like bees but dislike wasps.
That is all.
Maybe the grandmas know something about it then. :)
Honeybees seem to be going extinct. It's very sad. I like honey.
RA - you like bees?"yes, i like bees so much i often wear clothing made of decaying apples and smear my face with jam while wearing cheap colognes just to entice my Apoidean friends to hang around"
Mary -- it's far worse than just a honey shortage. Without commercial pollination provided by beekeepers' bees, food crops will eventually fall short of the requirements of the world's population. They still don't know for sure what has caused the collapse of almost 30% of the bee colonies.
I think it's the aliens. They're taking all the bees back to the mothership to make a cross-galaxy migration.
Einstain said that the world will end four years after the extinction of honeybees.
and, RA, Astghik,besides being the name of the goddess is also a real Armenian name and many girls have this name, it means STAR.
I wonder if there is such a thing as a bee fetish. I assume there's a fetish for everything these days.(But no, I don't love bees that much, or in that way.)
Ah...star....makes sense, Knarik...thanks...
Larry wrote: "Mary -- it's far worse than just a honey shortage. Without commercial pollination provided by beekeepers' bees, food crops will eventually fall short of the requirements of the world's population...."I realize that, Larry. Just trying to inject a little humorishness into a very troubling situation. But thanks for totally harshing my mellow.
I like the word "humorishness".
RA - not that there is anything wrong with that
There's a "crush fetish" involving insects (not bees specifically tho, sorry, RA). I suppose it's a form of giantessophilia.Please don't crush the bees. I would really miss the honey. Oh yeah, and the crops and stuff.
Mary -- we bee humorish. Sorry to crush your buzz.
what a lucky guy. i go totally OC on the cubs and girls don't have crushes on me, they think i am juvenile
Misha wrote: "Yeah, but that's just sports. Every guy is passionate about sports. ;)"BZZZZZZZZZZZT!! Not true. I am missing that particular gene.
I have a couple Gene's Larry, You can have one, take your pick.
Well then Larry is stuck with Gene one I guess.
