In message <[log in to unmask]>, Excerpts from BEE-L
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>This would appear from the french to to mean a lure or bait for
>swarms. But "bee bob"???
According to an old book I read recently. the French used to thread a
'bob' of dead bees together and hang them up as a swarm lure.
A bob is a small knot as in bobbed hair, or weight as in plumb-bob
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Tom Speight