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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.
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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)
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