In a message dated 3/14/06 11:33:56 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
[email protected] writes:


Not a bad idea. I don't have a badminton racket, but I do have a  tennis 
racket! 


That's MUCH harder -- tennis  rackets are heavier, so you can't swing as 
quickly and you'll tire  faster.  Pick up a used badminton set at a garage sale 
or 
flea  market.  Sometimes you just find the rackets.  I keep one in the  
house, in the garage, in each of the sheds, two in the horse barn (one at each  
end) -- I'm never more than a few feet away from a badminton racket at that  
time 
of year.  Sometimes I swing at the bee and hit something else  instead -- 
that's kind of hard on the racket -- so we always keep our eyes  open for 
replacement rackets.      MA


Maybe someday they will find  a use for those "critters" like they  have for 
another
species of bees and wasps.  They are training them to find drugs. and  
explosives.
 
 
_Click  here: Scientists Say Trained Wasps Could Replace Dogs for Sniffing 
Out Drugs,  Bombs and Bodies :: hightimes.com_ 
(http://www.hightimes.com/ht/news/content.php?bid=858&aid=24)