>Gee.....I thought this list was about sharing information and >helping each other.....not shooting holes in other people's >posts......sheesh! _I_ thought the idea was to share _information_-- not misinformation. I believe Alan Dick's post straightened out some of the inaccuracies of the post he was addressing. The thread he was following, after all, referred to "facts" not hearsay-- there are, after all, some things in beekeeping that _are_ facts and not the matters of opinion that we contentious lot of beekeepers so love to natter about ;-) - Conrad Berube " ` ISLAND CROP MANAGEMENT " ` 2620 Queenswood Dr. _- -_`-_|'\ /` Victoria, B.C. _/ / / -' `~()() V8N 1X5 \_\ _ /\-._/\/ (604)477-5220; fax (604)656-8922 / | | email: [log in to unmask] '` ^ ^ website: http://vvv.com/~bwarner/