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[–] 89 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Bees are venomous not poisonous.

Where's my golden star?

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Bees are only venomous if they sting you.

    But if you are eating delicious bee snacks out of a stolen purse, you'd need them to be poisoned to hurt the thief.

    edit I just realized Zulu made the same comment I did, like 2 hours earlier. Fuck, now I look like a copy and paste bot.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Would the bees be poisonous if one ingested a purse full of bees full of sting venom?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    No. You still need to get stung in your mouth or throat, and that's venom. You can eat bees til the cows come home. I wouldn't eat the purse though.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    How do you know for certain that the bee isn't coated in poison? Perhaps said bees wallowed in poison ivy effectively coating themselves in the leaves poisonous oil? We can't assume, you know what they say about assumptions?

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