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At 12:58 PM 25/10/96 +0100, Dave Black wrote:
>Morning All, (and 'Afternoon' to the rest of you)
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>I have a question. One of the purposes of the use of smoke is to confuse
>or mask pheromone communcation between bees so that an agitated bee can
>not warn its fellows. Do not essential oils have the same property ? If
>so has anyone noticed nice peaceful bees when using these compounds ?
So is my notion that the bees think: "Smoke! Smoke! It's a bush fire! Save
the honey!" and then, being comfortably fat with the honey, don't feel like
stinging, is that too fanciful to be true?
Bruce
10 months, 2 hives
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Bruce Laidlaw
Head Teacher Foundation Studies
East Sydney College of TAFE (Technical & Further Education)
Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 2010
Phone: +61-2-9569-2854 (h,) 9339-8648 (w), Fax: +61-2-9569-8940
http://pip.com.au/~abestuds/
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