When we're not thinking bees, we're helping the Cricket Crawl crowd to maintain their Facebook page. Which means we keep our eyes peeled for cricket- and katydid-related material.
So we were pleasantly surprised to come upon this strange item about cricket moms and baby crickets and dangerous spiders and demented science experiments in the New York Times over the weekend.
"For the bee, honey is the ultimate reality. It represents the fulfillment of her life mission, the triumph over her enemies, the continuity of the hive, the justification for working herself to death. Honey is to bees what money in the bank is to people—a measure of prosperity and well-being. But there is nothing abstract or symbolic about honey, as there is about money, which has no intrinsic value. There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance."—Wm. Longgood, The Queen Must Die
1 comment:
wax coated fangs, indeed. this is one of those times when I think if crickets can do it, probably humans can, too. Although what the warnings would concern, I'm not sure.
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