In message <[log in to unmask]>, Excerpts from BEE-L <[log in to unmask]> writes >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 -- Tom Speight