In article >, says...
>
> Janet wrote:
> >
> > I imagine wine was discovered accidentally. Probably by wasps or
> > slugs.
> >
> > Some human noticed drunk wasps staggering around under a plum tree,
> > falling over and waving their legs in the air and thought "that looks
> > like fun".
>
> LOL! :-D
>
> Speaking of wasps falling over and waving their legs in the
> air...
>
> I was once watching some kid's science show on tv. They said that
> bumblebees can be frozen completely then revived later. (This is
> how they survive winters) Huh, I thought.
>
> It was summer so I went right outside with a jar and caught a
> bumblebee on a clover. I put the jar right into my freezer
> overnight.
>
> The next morning, I opened the jar and carefully poured the bee
> onto a small plate. It was frozen solid...it made a clinking
> sound as it hit the plate landing upside down with frozen legs in
> the air.
>
> Put the plate on the coffee table and all of us (me, wife, 2
> little girls and cat) sat there watching and waiting. 5-10
> minutes later, nothing and I thought I had killed the poor fellow
> but we kept watching.
>
> Another few minutes and one leg started wiggling...then more
> legs. Eventually the bumblebee flipped over and just stood there
> on the plate. This is when we all went outside on the porch and
> set the bee plate on the table.
>
> The bee started walking around on the plate, and slowly started
> exercising it's wings in slow motion. A few minutes later, it
> took off and flew away. Very cool experiment...that science guy
> was correct.

Now I have to find a bee, again.

Last time I experimented with a bumble bee, was after someone in a
garden newsgroup claimed bumble bees don't sting. He was wrong.

In summer I found a monster insect sitting on a shirt that was
hanging on the washing line. Fearing it was an invasive deadly killer
Asian hornet I caught it in a jamjar, took a photo, put it in the
freezer and contacted the emergency Asian Hornet Watch. Then me and the
dog Bugged Out down to the underground bunker.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/57...arning-DEADLY-
hornets-killed-SIX-France-arrive-UK

Asian Hornet Watch identified it as just a European Hornet so I
released the prisoner from Siberia and defrosted it.

It was still dead.

Janet UK