On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Andy Nachbaur wrote (among other things):
 
> Now back to beekeeping school, what is this about all those worker bees
> having no father, or was their father their grandfather?
 
It's not the workers that are fatherless, but the drones. Lack of a proper
upbringing undoubtedly explains the latter's penchant for unsafe sex.
 
*************************************************************************
Tom Culliney    Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry,
1428 South King St., Honolulu, HI 96814, U.S.A.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Telephone: 808-973-9528
FAX: 808-973-9533
 
"To a rough approximation and setting aside vertebrate chauvinism, it can
   be said that essentially all organisms are insects."--R.M. May (1988)
"Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as
   well make peace with the landlord."--T. Eisner (1989)