*facepalm*

[agilebrit]

WHY is it so difficult to find the specific piece of information I need for this damb beefic?

It's a well-known fact that if you cut off a cockroach's head, it will live until it starves to death. Cockroaches are tough little buggers.

However...what happens to a bee if you whack its head off? How long does it live? Can it still fly, or sting?

I called a beekeeper. He didn't know, but suggested trying the library. I've looked through Google until I'm blue in the fingertips.

And I'm squeamish about catching a bee and cutting off its head to find out for myself. That just seems...I don't know. Unnecessarily cruel. To a bug.

Yeah.

And the damb story is stalled until I find out one way or the other. CRAP.

In other news, apparently the author I've been stalking reviewing at FFN has taken the reviews to heart...in a way. She's fixed the script format, but now it's all one big block of text. The word "sinus" is gone, so yay for that.

It looks like she can be taught.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I would reckon that if it is so hard to find out how long a bee lives without its head the chances are that you can just be reasonable about it and no-one will know any better.

Reasonably they might live for a little while , but would not be able to fly in any logical fashion as they would have lost their sense of direction. They might well be able to sting though.

If I was reading something in which bees kept going after decapitation by a fairy I would probably find minutes or hours rather than days believable.

Don't know if this helps!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Hmm - the husband beat me - with facts - curses, foiled again!

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

It does help, thanks. I need to just write the silly thing and not be so worried about nitpicky details, but I'm so anally rententive about stupid little factoids that I'd be incredibly embarrassed if I got it wrong. *rolls eyes @ self*