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From: mac@idacrd.UUCP (Bob McGwier)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Enzyme action
Message-ID: <305@idacrd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 13:32:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  7 13:32:21 1987
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in article <240@ddsw1.UUCP>, dino@ddsw1.UUCP (Laura Watson) says:
> Xref: idacrd sci.bio:665 sci.physics:2317
> Summary: An idea? Perhaps?
> 
> I was watching the movie "The Fly" the other night and it gave me
> an idea of a way to solve a problem I've been trying to solve for
> several years.  Of course, the part that really got me started thinking 
> was when Brendelfly vomitted all over the other fellow's hand and foot 
> and made the body parts go away with fly digestive juices.  
> 
> What I am wondering is this:  Is there in existence an actual enzyme, 
> such as the digestive enzymes of some insect or another, which is
> known to dissolve pine rosin?  Pine rosin is always a sticky mess, and 
> hard to clean off of anything.  Especially when one puts it into
> "rosin" soldering flux......  
> Laura Watson   ...[ihnp4, rutgers!moss, clyde, ulysses, cbosgd]!burt!lkw  

Laura:

Every few years, those of us who own timberland have a deadly beast that
visits us.  It is called the Southern Pine Beetle.  It burrows quite
effectively into pine and when the pine attempts to "clot its wound"
with rosin, the beetles seem to counteract it.  I would at least look
into the possibility that they have some enzymatic approach to making
a home and sustenance for themselves :-(

Bob