From: "Marc Studebaker : "  I have seen bees intensionally fly into a
smoker several times.  It has
always been an angry bee.  I won't speculate on why they do this, only the
bees know for sure".

Bees have no sense that they will die, according to Professor Pichard.  So
it  probably creates a false image to speak of a suicide bee. Bees - or at
first one bee, as Jim has intriguingly suggested  - attack perceived dangers
near the hive, to drive them away.  Is it not likely that, when this strange
behaviour occurs, there is something in the smoker fuel that really stirs
them up?

Robin Dartington

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