j h & e mcadam wrote:
 
> After 100 or 200 stings you either won't feel a thing (after the initial
> prick) or you will give up beekeeping, heh, heh, heh.
 
I don't think that is strictly true.  In the past 16 years I have gotten
several hundred stings (many intentional, I must admit, for
therapeutical purposes) and they still hurt.  What has happened to me,
is the psychological aspect of the sting has disappeared.  It is simply
a minor pain, among many minor pains we humans experience every day.  I
would prefer a bee sting to a paper cut any day.
 
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"Test everything.  Hold on to the good."  (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
 
Tom Elliott
Eagle River, Alaska
U.S.A.
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