The PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) organization also disseminates a certain
amount of information to the public that is curiously misleading.  On their web page
http://www.peta.org/mall/cc/ingred.html they
are critical of the harvest of beeswax, saying among other things that it is taken
from "virgin bees".
  This gave me pause, for it may be more ethical to provide some level of sexual
activity for the thousands of worker bees for whom nature has omitted this capability, if not
interest. There is also the problem that there is no such thing as a non-virgin drone, or at least
not for more than a few minutes at once since after
achieving this state they have a habit (again, nature certainly made a mistake here) of keeling over
(an exhilarating way to go, I assume).
  Perhaps these problems can be overcome with some kind of mechanical device, or perhaps the Viagra
people can do some joint research with the makers of Apistan and CheckMite, thus enabling us to
improve on nature's grand design (a "Strip-Tease" strip to get the virgins aroused, then some kind
of plant-like "service station" to be placed in the beeyard for the virgins to land on and, well,
you get the picture.
  I can't wait to see what's next- new chemicals and warnings, new bee equipment to buy......oh boy!
/Curtis Crowell