Justin - When you give your statics on people dying of "bee stings" are you
(or the people taking the statistics) sure they were bee stings and not
wasps, yellow jackets, etc.  Whenever I speak to school groups, the children
invariably want to tell me horror stories about "bee" stings.  When I quiz
them further, I often find that the insects that stung them came out of a
large, grey papery ball in a tree or from a hole in the ground!  I am
constantly defending the honey bee.  Let's encourage those with stinging
stories to clarify and say wasp or yellow jacket or hornet. For, usually,
that is the insect that did the dastardly deed.
 
Faith Andrews Bedford
Ivy, VA and Tampa, Fla.