proof that a Supreme Diety listens...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

but not really that well, I guess...

like most every hetero boy or man, I ask God from time to time to make me more of a chick magnet.

you know, just a little bit...

well... I just removed the 7th of these guys from me in like 3 days. Apparently God made me a TICK MAGNET!

[hobbit709]

1. Well, they ARE female.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. there are no boy ticks?

who knew

[NewJeffCT]

5. most insects

are female, but I don't think ticks are insects... they're in the spider/arachnid family, no?

[redqueen]

6. Most insects are female?

How does that work?

[NewJeffCT]

7. i know with ants & bees

the males only live for a short time to fertilize the queen (or new queens), and then die off...

the worker bees and ants are typically females, but not capable of reproduction.

In the real world, every job on a beehive’s spreadsheet — foraging for nectar and pollen, fanning nectar into honey, fawning over the queen, squirting out wax, battling off bears, tossing out the trash and dead bees — is performed by a cast of workers that is homogeneously female. Sterile, yes, with stingers where their egg-laying tubes should be, but female nonetheless.

By bowdlerizing the basic complexion of a great insect society, Mr. Seinfeld’s “Bee Movie” follows in the well-pheromoned path of Woody Allen as a whiny worker ant in “Antz” and Dave Foley playing a klutzy forager ant in “A Bug’s Life.” Maybe it’s silly to fault cartoons for biological inaccuracies when the insects are already talking like Chris Rock and wearing Phyllis Diller hats. But isn’t it bad enough that in Hollywood’s animated family fare about rats, clownfish, penguins, lions, hyenas and other relatively large animals, the overwhelming majority of characters are male, despite nature’s preferred sex ratio of roughly 50-50? Must even obligately female creatures like worker bees and soldier ants be given sex change surgery, too? Besides, there’s no need to go with the faux: the life of an authentic male social insect is thrilling, poignant and cartoonish enough.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/science/13angi.html

[redqueen]

8. Hah... that's wild.

Actually I remember reading that about bees... I think it was right here in the lounge! :P


And yeah... re: hollywood... remember Barnyard? (You probably don't, I think it flopped.) Anyway, all the bulls had udders in that one. :rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

11. just think

female queen bees & ants have no worries about having to ask male bees/ants out for dates or anything like that... the female bee flies by and gets jumped by a bunch of males, and if they do their job, they drop dead. If they fail, they live to try again the next day.

[Orsino]

10. That's hot. n/t

[hobbit709]

9. There are male ticks but most likely the ones that feed on you are female.

[sarge43]

2. Hey. When you're as old as God, your hearing isn't so good. n/t

[hobbit709]

3. Actually God heard right

Someone forgot to say what species of female he wanted.

[sarge43]

12. "These kids, so picky."

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

14. kid? me?

only in spirit, I assure you

[timtom]

13. Oops.

Thought this was about the best weight-loss plan (Jenny Craig vs. South Beach)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. Yee HAaaaaaaaaaaw.... 2 more this PM

I am the Gene Simmons of the tick world!

[Deja Q]

16. Diety or Deity?

Give me a reason to live and I'll go on a diety! :rofl: