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Birds do it. Bees do it. But dandelions don't. The prodigious spread of these winsome weeds underscores a little-appreciated biological fact. Contrary to human experience, sex is not essential to reproduction. "Quite the opposite," exclaims anthropologist John Tooby of the University of California at Santa Barbara. "From an...
Bees are also fuzzy and somewhat slow-moving. And they're orange and brown. Not shiny black and yellow, not fast-paced and aggressive.
Now I'm sure that Elehwany, the writer of My Girl, didn't mean to slander the world's bees. Like most of the world's humans, he was just raised in ignorance and bigotry, unable to distinguish between his friends the bees and his foes the yellowjackets.
But someone at Columbia Pictures might have checked to see if a swarm of bees would really kill innocent little Macaulay.
That is, if they weren't part of the international conspiracy (run by agents of the wasps) to defame the bees.