3/30/95 Michael Blankenstein wrote:
 
     Does any manufacturer produce canned smoke for bees? Is the smoke
>effect
>     due to olfactory or visual effects in the bees?
>
>     Michael Blankenstein
>
 Michael:  Fifteen years ago I purchased a can of spray smoke from one of
the major suppliers (Kelly I think it was, although I don't think they sell
it now).  It didn't work that well.  I first tried it on a large colony then
thought it would be good for working nucs.  I soon realized that I was
better off with nothing rather than to use the canned smoke.
        To answer you second question, I think it was intended to impact
their olfactory sense.  Although, it didn't hang in the air as long as a good
puff of smoke does.  I'm guessing the droplet size was too large.  And now
that I think about it I wonder what the propellent was?
 
Gordon Allen-Wardell
Apiculture Specialist