Re: Do you have a Knowledge Officer?

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:58:38 -0500, Robert <no@xxxxxx> wrote:

Almost all bees use their stingers for stinging, only the queens lay
eggs. So how do we determine what their primary purposes are?

Read the requirements?

Some common bee species are solitary, not communal. All their females are fertile. They
use their stingers to bore holes for eggs, then lay the egg through the stinger.

The word ovipositor is the giveaway.

That word was a result of observation, not of reading the specs. If
you get stung by a bee, chances are that stinger has not laid any
eggs, and for that bee, the stinger was doing its job.

We do have organs that have more than one function. I'd hate to have
to decide which function is primary.
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