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Do bees have knees?

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Athley | 22:59 Sun 04th Feb 2007 | Animals & Nature
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Following on from penguins got me thinking particularly about the expression.

Clanad?

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They don't. The legs of insects, including bees, have segments called femurs and tibias, just like those bones in humans, but the joint is never referred to as a 'knee' by entomologists. Instead it's called the ' femoro-tibial joint'.
Thaks for that, heathfield ... In honor of that knowledge, now comes a childhood poem:
Scabby Knees

Scabby knees! Scabby knees!
Can I pick them, can I please?
They�re so itchy, brown and scratchy,
Crusty, flaky and quite nasty,
Like burnt pastry on a pasty,

If I pick them Mum might catch me.

Scabby knees! Scabby knees!
Can I pick them, can I please?
Can I scratch them, can I pick them?
Can I pull bits off and flick them?

Scabby knees! Scabby knees!
I got them falling from the trees,
Onto the hard ground with a thud,
Playing games of Robin Hood.

My knees would be scab free they would,
If I�d fallen in the mud!
Scabby knees! Scabby knees!
Can I pick them, can I please?
Can I scratch them, can I pick them?
Can I pull bits off and flick them?

Scabby knees! Scabby knees!
Look like they�ve got a bad disease,
Crispy coated with dried blood,
Underneath there�s gunky crud,
I would ban them if I could,
Scabby knees are just no good.

Scabby knees! Scabby knees!
Can I pick them, can I please?
Can I scratch them, can I pick them?
Can I pull bits off and flick them?

(With thanks to Hel�n Thomas)
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Thank you heathfield!! :o)

Clanad - have you been up all night watching the Superbowl :o)


LOL

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In future then the expression
'he/she is the bees knees' will have to be
'the bees femoro-tibial joint!!'



Hmmmm doesn't roll off the tongue does it?

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No, Athley... unfortunately, the Green Bay Packers failed to qualify aagain this year...
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