Peter Borst suggested eating pollen can sometimes cure allergies.  I have
had customers who claimed to cure their allergies by eating comb honey.
This may be psychosomatic but if its not I assume it is the pollen in the
honey and the cappings which is somehow acting to cure the symptoms.  Have
you ever tried comb honey from your area, Peter?

Rick Green wondered why nature would spend energy producing drones in a
queenless hive.  I am no biologist but have always thought this was just
worker bees desperately trying to reproduce the best they could before
dying.  I doubt these drone are hardy enough to successfully mate.

I have read that if populations of mammals do not have members of the
opposite sex to mate with then homosexual behaviour becomes more
prevalent.  This is another case in nature where energy is being expended
in a vain attempt to reproduce, although in higher primates there are other
factors involved in homosexual behaviour than reproduction alone.

While we're on the subject maybe someone can explain why mammals evolved
with orgasms as a reward in reproduction,while bees seem to have just as
strong an urge to reproduce without any immediate reward.  In fact, drones
have the exact opposite of a reward; maybe they congregate to talk each
other into the chase.  Ted Hancock