Russ Dean wrote:
> Have you heard the tale that bees couldn't sting you if you held your
breath?
> You held your breath and the pores on you skin would close and the stinger
> had no place to go. I thought that was funny.

Aggressive colonies often react badly to human breath, so not breathing over
the colony may well reduce stings.  So often there is a good scientific
reason why these old sayings actually work.

Peter Edwards
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