Big difference in their stingers. Bees are barbed and the others are not.

When I was a kid my Dad would give me a nickel to pay pinball at the fish fry place we ate at on Friday nights. A bit later I played the illegal gambling machines that had no flippers. When I worked for the USFS in Washington they had legal machines with flippers and ability to increase odds and pay outs. Fun stuff. The Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas is on my bucket list.

I remember seeing boxes of white mice from the Jackson Labs at the train station in Bangor Maine.

Pinball over-rated? Blasphemy.

So---grow more faster growing trees. It's forestry, not rocket science.

Bad Ass Palladin I called him. It is currently running on ME-TV Saturday mornings from 9-10 AM EST.

That's kind of amusing. Mrs.O loves them. I recall the CEO of Red Lobster lost her job because her "all you can eat" crab legs was a financial burden.

My buddy and I figured out that cramming was counter-productive, just filling your brain with useless facts. We may not have made the Dean's List, but we did graduate.

Studied entomology in college. Always wanted to see Giant Water Bug vs. Predacious Diving Beetle. Worked at Cornell doing research with Asian Long Horned Beetles. Got mentioned in scientific papers.

Hey it could have just as well been Vespucciland !

Whatever. Anyone else here ever see the giant crows/ravens off I-81 south of Alexandria Bay NY ?

I liked grape jelly sandwiches with potato chips in them.

BOGO sales items at my Publix market helps me stock up on things I used a lot. I look at is as "at no extra cost" to me, or I divide the cost in 2 and think of it at 2 for that price.

It wasn't that long ago that the army's 10th Mountain Division moved from Alaska to Fort Drum in northern NY where the winters were colder for their training exercises.