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Hilary, I got stung by wasps uncountable times when picking tobacco for 2 seasons at Motueka (they lurrrve the scent? taste? of tobacco-leaf juice.) Maybe the effect doesnt last (if there is an anti-arthitic effect) but I've sure as got osteo-arthritis in many places...maybe it applies to rheumatoid arth? Maybe it's a placebo-type response? Anyone?
And, BenWilson- it has been noted for millenia (it seems humans devised skeps for at least 4 mill.) that bees 'embalm' intruders (a mouse has been found!) Myself, I like the ?Japanese bees that surround an intruding wasp and by sheer numbers and body heat *cook* the thing to death...)
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Love that wordplay linger!
And thanks Heather W. - I really should've got uncopyrightable (but I'm not sure about the other 3: a quick peek in the OED couldnt find them.)
Right: we now start looking for the 16 letterstring- -
Ho! So no PoMo fo' loco? Yo!
(I'm also the one who collects loong words of non-repeating strings of letters in English - go beat 'ambidextrously' - please!)
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Me too - cheers n/n Islander
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Ian Mackay - predators upon predators upon-
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Phuque o dear, 'taslov' is another word for policestateubiquityinstigator...
or, pure urinational acquisitator-
that latter, i think!
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BenWilson - yup. The info apropos native bee social behaviour is equivocal, but I'd be happy to learn new info-
Euro imports to any 'foreign lamd' - i.e here- *have* to be supported, by physical species in appropriate regemes and an awful lot got left behind (soil flora e.g)-
I agree BenWilson: a lot of importations into the British Isles (let alone the area known now as Germany) were & are trampled species - and, goodness knows, those places have been footworn for -at least- 150,000 thousand years of hominoid/homonim/humanoid walkabout-
at best informed guess-backed-by-evidence, there have been NO humans in Aotearoa before approx. 1000BPE. We're latecomers to a rare and lovely land, and we've already destroyed a lot *
*My Kai Tahu ancestors arrived in the South in the late 1700s: those before us - fellow Polynesians- in some instances, direct-lineage relations- had been here for nearly 600 years. There is NO evidence, whatsoever, for earlier human settlement-
the native vegetation, in a lot of instances, survives almost everything: aue! not the birds or the amphibians or the insects (and I suspect, not a lot of the arachnids - one of neighbours, now dead alas, talked of 'tree spiders. really big green buggers."
I've never seen those.)
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Anybody ever done studies on late1960's/early1970s Deaf employment areas?
I worked in woollen mills & carpet factories then, and there were an astonishing number (to me) Deaf employed then & there. They kept to themselves... -
Bonobo males are definite personalities & good people - I've met 4 of them (including, handshake &hand kiss only, Kanzi)- and polite. Bonobo females are sooo - themselves! And not polite! They seem to pick up I'm a neither/ nor v. quickly, but cease dominance tactics equally quickly
even in zoo settings! (I'd seriously love to meet them in home territories
but that's never going to be a possibility.}
I've also met a lot of chimps (only in zoo/game park settings.)
I've been fascinated by our hominoid cuzzies since I was a wee small kid because I could read their behaviours before I could read & understand those of our species. -
HO! SO NO PO MO FO'
(tiny wee letters - whatever reason/s)