Dear Bee-Liners:
 
As a regular reader of this newsletter, I appreciate both the exchange of
information and the correction of misinformation.  However, I find ad
hominem attacks, an example of which follows, both boorish and unnecessary.
 
>                After such scholarly contributions about the spread of
>the European honeybee in the New World, it was a bit disappointing to
>read [...]'s message about bumblebee honey.  Here are some
>corrections:
 
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>Well, I'm sorry to be insulting, but I suspect that many Native Americ-
>ans were (and doubtless still ARE!) better naturalists than some academ-
>ic "ecologists"!
 
Let's try for a higher tone.
 
Stephen Clark
Vassar College