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March 24, 2006
hymenoptera
Did some research on honeybees this past week and found the Latin, Hymenoptera Apis mellifera.
I'm wondering about etymology of hymen, because Derrida plays with its inside/outside doubled nature. It appears to have only minimal crossover from referring to a thin skin or membrane to ... the wings of a genus of insects.
Honeybees have two kinds of dances to indicate the location of food: the round dance and the waggle dance. Waggling (!) involves fixing the coordinates of the sun with the hive and the pollen. Awesome.
Posted by Steph at March 24, 2006 5:44 PM