Yes, yes!!!
But it is more like "Gotterdammerung".... Imagine Wagner done in SNL Bee Suits. "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" merging into "The Flight of the Valkyries"!
Damn, Chris I think we can go on and on with this thread for a long time. We can turn lbo-talk into...
l-BEE-o-talk... It will produce a big buzz....
The possibilities (and puns) are endless. Do you think anyone will notice?
Jerry
--- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > "Ground control to Major Tam..." Because as a
> > worker I am not a "Tom".
> >
> > So let's first be clear about Queen Chris's problem.
> >
> > A drone bee and a worker bee are different. A drone
> > bee among honeybees
> > develops from unfertilized eggs and a worker bee
> > from fertilized eggs.
> > Drone bees are males and worker bees are female.
> > Drone bees exist to
> > service the Queen and Worker bees exist to service
> > feed the drones among
> > many other functions, like keeping the hive cool and
> > moving eggs around and
> > cleaning up the garbage, guarding the entrance of
> > the hive, etc.
> >
> > Workers have a life cycle where the kind of tasks
> > they perform are at first
> > inside the nest (like moving eggs into cells) and
> > then later both inside and
> > outside the nest (like taking out the garbage) and
> > later inside, but close
> > to the nest, (guarding the entrance) and later
> > foraging. What percentage of
> > workers takes up each task seems to depend on the
> > life cycle of the hive and
> > the "dependence" of the hive upon each task. It
> > seems that once a worker
> > starts performing tasks outside the hive it never
> > reverts to performing
> > tasks inside the hive. Thus a forager never reverts
> > to becoming an egg
> > mover.
> >
> > Now, I hear Queen Chris calling me, and as a
> > foraging worker bee I have
> > discovered that I am unable to make it back to the
> > nest where Queen Chris is
> > waiting for me and other old foragers. The drones
> > want to be fed. The
> > drones need to be fed. The hive needs its sweet
> > stuff. Where's my Royal
> > Jelly, yells Queen Chris, where's my Bee Bread.
> > "Something is happening
> > here and you just don't know what it is, do you Mr.
> > Jones?" Queen Chris
> > gets lonelier and lonelier as more and more workers
> > become foragers and as
> > more and more foragers like me get lost and
> > confused... and it is very
> > lonely now since all the workers seem to be lost and
> > the queen is there with
> > no workers and maybe now even all the drones are
> > dying, because "we're
> > idiots babe, and we can't even feed ourselves"!
> >
> > As for me, I think it is something wrong with my
> > navigation system. What
> > exactly it is I don't know. But i really doubt that
> > it has something to do
> > with cell phones. That's just me, a worker bee with
> > a guess.
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >
> > --- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > And one more thing. I want to thank Chris for
> > not
> > > > taking the opportunity to
> > > > make fun of me about my obsession with bees and
> > ants
> > > > and swarming insects.
> > > > But the future will tell... Maybe the bug that
> > has
> > > > crawled into his dark
> > > > place is entomologically interesting?
> > > >
> > > > Jerry
> > >
> > >
> > > Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
> > >
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