Here are two more replies, reposted by moderation due to quotes of the entire previous message included. BEE-L moderators will never change your words, but moderators will clip out quotes or reject posts with too many quotes. (Seems, maybe, there is no way to keep smartphones from quoting?) Allen, I am just a new beekeeper compared to most all on here. I only have 22 hives in Va at the age of 28 with plans for around 100 or so. I stay pretty active going to up to 2 different monthly club meetings and actively teaching a beginners course. I follow Bee-L on my smart phone and enjoy the conversations, although I dont think I could keep up with the level of science y'all work with even as an engineer. Keep up the post I and others do follow them and use the thoughts to guide our own test and applications in the bee yard. Btw, I dont know if this phone is going to forward your post or not, so if it does I apologize in advance. Doug Ladd Buckingham, VA --- From Mark-Vincent Cisar: We in Australia were very happy recently when Randy Oliver visited recently to have a chin wag. He was up in Mildura also. We read what is posted and take the view that there is interest if you are interested. Some of the contributors could take a few lessons in manners when writing as many readers may not want to contribute when the tone of some of the contributors is a bit too emotive for a semi-public board such as BEE-L. *********************************************** 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 Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm