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Peter Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:48:27 +0100
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Todd,
Are you sure that no other individual has been using your smoker to produce other types of illicit
fumes?

If not, then you might have had a bee that was moving on on the evolutionary pathway - one that was
investigating the possibility of preserving nectar by smoking it via. the trial and error
methodology, rather than dehydration.

In this case - Error!

Or maybe, it realised that it was carrying a few AFB spores and wished to "do them in"

If you do not consider the above possible or likely - how about it having the idea of imitating a
forest fire water dumping aircraft - it just dived in to try and extinguish what it considered a
potential fire hazard to the local area.

Maybe, a novel hygienic behavioral trait to deposit varroa mites in a location from which
re-infestation is unlikely.

The possibilities are wide!!!!

Regards,
Peter

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