In regards to the following message: >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: RE: Austrailian bees sting tree and it dies?!?! >In-reply-to: Message of Tue, > 9 Feb 1993 08:02:12 PST from <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]> >To: STEPHEN CLARK <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-to: Discussion of Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]> >Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > >I had an old friend who had a wooden leg. His leg was attacked by >stinging bees. The result was that the wood swelled up to over >three times its original diameter and rent his trouser-leg assunder! >I told him he should have been wearing shorts. Anyway, as he tried >to walk home, the swollen wood became so weak, that his leg broke. >My friend was remarkably agile, and wasn't hurt by the fall. He >did get up and hop to the nearest wooden leg factory, some 2,500 km >distant. They fixed him up the next day. Please note that this >series of events did not take place in Australia. That's nothing! I know a couple whose baby wandered away while they were having a picnic in the woods and was raised by bees. Years later he was discovered by a woodcutter and successfully reintroduced to society. He became quite a hit on the talk show circuit but his fame was short-lived because he had a tendency to drone on. Buzzz, Steve Clark Vassar College