If you see a swarm of bees then you are highly unlikely to be stung by them.
When bees swarm, they gorge themselves on honey first to take with them from
old home to new, and this makes them very docile.
It is this habit that is used when a beekeepers smokes their bees when they
open the
So glad I live in the UK, where I think the only poisonous creature we have
the is adder snake (only found in forests and heathlands) and not deadly.
Think escargot are a particular species of edible snails.
Worms don't have eyes, so if one really did see Ricki, then it wasn't a
worm. Have
le 7/08/05 9:22, Jean Nathan à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Think escargot are a particular species of edible snails.
wll... escargot is the french for snail but it might mean edible snails
in english ... i'd say all snails are edible but the biggest ones are easier
to eat and escargots
Hi All,
I am becoming even more thankful that I live in the UK! We don't have to
put up with all these poisonous and unpleasant creepy crawlies and snakes!
The most dangerous thing we have in this country is the adder or viper - and
even they are not aggressive, they just get a tad peeved if
Just a thought - isn't the old remedy for wasps and bee-stings something
like:
Vinegar for wasps, and bicarb(onate of soda) for bees.The alliteration
of v/w and b/b is supposed to help the memory I think.
Apparently, you wipe the bee sting with bicarb made into a solution with
water, and
Hi All,
The talk of snails is making my mouth water! We have collected the winkles
(marine snails?) and cockles for years, and they are put into a bucket with
flour and water, so they can get rid of the sand. Which is why I never eat
the commercially prepared varieties - the sand is never
Dear friends,
To ease a wasp sting the old remedy is vinegar, and bicarbonate of soda for
a bee.
Flouring shell crawlies ie; cockles and snails, is the same as putting
porridge oat flakes in with a bucket load of mussels in water to soak for
several hours prior to cooking, again the mussels eat
In a message dated 8/7/2005 5:13:15 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
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Hi All,
I am becoming even more thankful that I live in the UK! We don't have to
put up with all these poisonous and unpleasant creepy crawlies and snakes!
Amazing. I wonder how the UK lucked out like
Hi All --
I heard a preacher on TV tell about a recent trip to the department store
when he, his wife and daughter and the grandma had an embarrassing moment when
the grandma asked, Where are your thongs? and the helpful saleslady showed
them. Now-a-days they are called flip-flops, he
In a message dated 8/7/2005 9:20:29 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ricki, I am in my second season of raising silkworms. I am a handspinner.
And I intend to use the silk from them. I would be interested in knowing
why it is considered cruelty to animals. I guess when
Ricki writes:
Hmm - I'm wracking my brain trying to remember where I heard that it was
cruelty to animals, but it was in the context of comparing it to wool and
cotton, whose host lives on.
Commercial silk farmers do kill the larvae so that the cocoons can be reeled
(unwound). I don't much
Hi All -
From an insurance newsletter today:
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long
run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the
short run determines the long run. -- Syndey J. Harris
Ricki
Utah
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i think it is when they kill the worm before it comes out of the
caccoon so they can have the silk unbroken that it is considered cruel.
it is supposed to be stronger that way. i have never bought either
kind of silk fiber, but they sell them both in most fiber stores.
--- BrambleLane [EMAIL
we use bleach for wasp any kind of bee sting here. that is what most
of the people in this are have told me.
--- Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a thought - isn't the old remedy for wasps and bee-stings
something
like:
Vinegar for wasps, and bicarb(onate of soda) for bees.
we use bleach for wasp or any kind of bee sting here. that is what
most of the people in this area have told me.
--- Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a thought - isn't the old remedy for wasps and bee-stings
something
like:
Vinegar for wasps, and bicarb(onate of soda) for
In a message dated 8/4/2005 8:05:34 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
but you are right about the movie for utah. i think it would be a
nice tribute. you should write one of those local educational channels
to see if they might make one. they make better programming
here is a photo of each: redsnakes,redworms,western worm snakes (which
i think it sounds more like), and night crawler.
http://www.jdtails.com/imagepages/cornsnakes/bloodred.htm
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
http://www.herpnet.net/Iowa-Herpetology/reptiles/snakes/worm_snake.html
In a message dated 8/7/2005 6:15:24 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
Thanks, Suzy - out of all of those, I'd say the red wiggler worm looks the
most like what I sawRemind me not to start a worm farm - even though
they're good
this is so grose! does anyone want to see 1000 or more red wiggler
worms in one box? o!!
On Aug 7, 2005, at 19:52, susan wrote:
i think it is when they kill the worm before it comes out of the
coccoon so they can have the silk unbroken that it is considered cruel.
Indeed that's the case. The Chinese legend of how silk came to be
tells the story of an empress who was taking her
On Aug 7, 2005, at 1:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (in response to suz):
i don't like oysters at all and still can't figure out how
to eat them.
I only wish I could afford to eat oysters at least once in every
r-month :) Oysters, shrimp, mussels, clams, snails... All of those were
hidden from
On Aug 7, 2005, at 3:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacquie) wrote:
Suzy, most people will not have anything more than a temporarily
painful
sting from bees and wasps - an icepack will very quickly remove most
of the pain.
Yes, that's what I've always known to be true (and enjoyed the jokes
about
Very un-PC I'm sure, but sooo funny, being true :)
From: C.B. 1
Mujibar was trying to get into America legally through Immigration.
The Immigration Officer said, Mujibar, you have passed all the tests,
except there is one more test. Unless you pass it you cannot enter
America.
Mujibar said,
I went to the cinema yesterday to see March of the Penguins (really
enjoyed it and the photography is phenominal - narrated by Morgan Freeman).
En route, I asked my friend - is it real penguins or animated, he said
real - oh good, I thought.
When the movie started it came up that it was a
OK... Not a new one, but...
From: L.F.
One day, a little boy asked his daddy, Daddy, how was I born?
The father replied, Ah, my son, I guess you'll need to find out one
day anyway. Well, you see, your Mom and I first got together in a chat
room on MSN. Then I set up a date via e-mail and
Another one worth reviving; my sources are coming back from Denver and
discovering treasures in their boxes :)
From: L.F.
One Sunday, in counting the money in the weekly offering, the pastor of
a
small Florida church found a pink envelope containing $1000. It
happened again the next week.
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