在美国宾夕法尼亚州,每年都要举行一种别出心裁的比赛:比谁身上吸引的蜜蜂最多。按参赛者的多少来算,它甚至比奥林匹克运动会的规模还要大得多呢!每次参加比赛的,除了六百五十名左右的养蜂人以外,还有大约一千一百万只蜜蜂。难怪人们有趣地称它为“世界第一大赛”呢! 此种比赛是这样进行的:参赛的养蜂人将有雌蜂的线状物缠在身上,一般情况下是要在下巴上。然后,从蜂房中放出蜂群。这些蜜蜂嗅到雌蜂的气味,便不约而同地纷至沓来,蜂拥在有雌蜂的线状物周围,密密密麻麻一大片,其形状酷似男子的大胡子。(见图一) Every year in Pennsylvania, USA, there is a fanciful match that attracts the most bees. Depending on the number of contestants, it is even bigger than the Olympic Games. Each time there are about 6.5 million bee-beaters in addition to about 650 bee-beaters bee. No wonder people are funny to call it “the world’s largest competition” it! This kind of competition is like this: participating beekeepers will have female bee thread wrapped around the body, under normal circumstances is to be on the chin. Then, release the bee from the hive. These bees smell the smell of female bees, they spontaneously after another, flocked around the thread with the female bee, dense dense a large, its shape resembles a man bearded. (See figure I)