Peter Borst wrote : > > In Eva Crane's "Bees & Beekeeping" there is a list of plant > materials and their use as pacifiers or repellents. "Melissa > officinalis: rubbing the hands with the leaves is claimed to help in > preventing stings." > > Last summer I happened to use handlotion with the scent of vanilla and got remarkably less stings than both my fellow workers,sometimes not even one a day. Maria van den Berg.