Don Klipstein wrote:
In article , mm wrote:

SNIP stuff on drunken and otherwise wayward birds to edit for space

I saw drunk honeybees iirc, if not that, birds, at Patrick Henry's
house near Richmond Va. Do honeybees ever get drunk?

I do know for sure that insects in general can get intoxicated by
alcohol, and yellow jackets can get outright noticeably drunk.

Furthermore, insects can absorb alcohol and most other common organic
solvents through their skin.

One fine day sometime in the late 1970's or early 1980's, a yellow
jacket got into a discarded beer bottle that still had some beer in
it.

The poor thing was barely moving, apparently nearly unconscious. I
poured the beer and the yellow jacket out. Apparently, the alcohol
in the yellow jacket was able to escape through its skin and
evaporate - or maybe there was some other reason why it was able to
recover quite a bit in mere minutes.
After just a minute or two, it was able to walk, at first stumbling
in random directions. A few minutes later, it was able to walk fairly
straight, and then it started flying. It flew somewhat erratically,
and bumped into a house a couple times before flying out of sight.

- Don Klipstein )

insects don't have skin, nor sweat pores. they have spiracles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiracle