What's The Buzz About?

摘要

There's many differences between wasps and bees. Here's good ways to help others understand. Humans often associate the "buzzing" of insects with that of a bee: Why not a wasp, or a June bug, or a robber fly . . . Nope, only a bee! More often than notwhen any airborne insect is out buzzing about, people identify it as a bee. Why is this? Perhaps our early teachings that cows go moo, pigs go oink, and bees go buzzzzzzz are to blame. If so, then maybe these early teachings should also include that a flying cockroach or a long horned beetle goes buzzzzzzz as well. Ok, maybe that's going a bit too far (though they do buzzzzzzz). Alternatively, perhaps this auto-assumption initiates deep within our subconscious, a likely result from the years of the media's relentless pairing of words like "bee" and "buzz"? As a child one of my favorite breakfast foods was Honey Nut Cheerios. Ill never forget the image found in every commercial and on every box of this tasty breakfast treat - a friendly fun-loving beenamed "buzz." I wonder if this insulted Mr. Aldrin?