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Friday - May 28, 2010
From: Driftwood, TX
Region: Southwest
Topic: Best of Smarty, Pollinators
Title: Bees knees squeezing
Answered by: Barbara Medford
QUESTION:
Barbara, Do the knees of bees help them squeeze if they please their wobbly, bobbly, knobbly balls of pollen?ANSWER:
No, but when their toes are froze to their clothes, they have to survive alive in the hive in order to thrive until their chilly frilly skirts thaw their curls because the worker bees are girls. Of course.
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