In a message dated 4/15/00 11:47:09 AM, [log in to unmask] writes: <<I have not been able to identify many of the translucent and organic shaped things on the floor, and would love to have some input into what all I am looking at.>> Good suggestion for beekeeping classes. I'd travel a ways to learn how to use the screen insert and the gunk that falls underneath it to tell me what's going on, or has been going on, in my hives. I sat down with a microscope recently to do just this, and I think the session could have been a lot more productive if I had had some training.