De MENIER Jean Lab Entomologie 45 rue Buffon F-75005 PARIS FRANCE Dear Bee-Listers, I am new on the line. I am a professionnal entomologist working on the systematics of Coleoptera Cleridae (checkered-beetles). Some species of the genus Trichodes are known to be "parasitic" in bee-hives, though not regularly. The litterature on bees is so large that I am sure I have missed papers (large or small) mentionning parasitic clerids. I am not asking for a complete review of the litterature on the subject, but if you happen to have in memory recent references in which such predacious behaviour is mentioned, I would appreciate these references. My direct e-mail address is MENIERatFRMNHN11.BITNET. Thanks in advance, Sincerely, Jean J. Menier, Head of Coleoptera Section, Sub-Director, Entomology Dept., Mus{um national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France. (my questions are not only dedicated to the northern hemisphere, litterature on predacious clerids everywhere in the world is welcome, specially publications in amateur reviews which are not mentionned in the Zoological record, or Entomology abstracts, ... Thanks). JJM