>
> Had I left the bees on the ground and the sun not shone I am sure that they
> would have been really dead - chilled within a foot of their entrance.
>
> Yay!  A chance for a light post!  I went to a neighboring local 
club meeting last fall at which they were using the terms "dead" and
"dead-dead".  I was unfamiliar of the distinctions, but as I listened I
figured out that "dead" is as described above; seemingly dead but
revitalized if warmed

 vs. "dead-dead" which is dead no matter how long or how much heat is
added.  So I chimed in that the former ("dead") is appropriately called
torpid, and the latter ("dead-dead") is just dead.

Well, my little lesson was kind of a Debbie Downer.  The group was having
fun with dead and dead-dead.

Aaron Morris - thinking when in Rome...

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