>These are simple things that any beekeeper could do without a grant. >If you do, though, you gotta keep good records. Or carefull observations, always questioning "is that accurate?" For a limited audience, those with "sick" bees Catch a few leaving, pull off the last segment so as to get a drop of shit on your fingertip. Smell Is it really stinky or normal stinky? Hard to put numbers here but you'll smell what I mean BTW I think this is part of why they abscond dave *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Access BEE-L directly at: http://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A0=BEE-L