> Yesterday was bright and sunny, and hundreds of my bees were rolling in wood > chips left from cutting firewood with a chainsaw. Some of the chips were Hello Bill - A few years back I observed the same performance. I had deposited a couple of garbage cans worth of sawdust from my shop, out in the garden. The sawdust had gotten wet and on an early spring day, the bees were not just picking through it, but actually rolling around it as a cat would do with catnip, almost in a frenzy state. All I could figure was they had found something that solved a need they have in some way. Reminded me of how birds will roll and fluff around in dirt. I don't observe that there is anything in it that they pick up and took back to the hive. Still a mystery to me. -Barry -- Barry Birkey West Chicago, IL U.S.A. www.beesource.com