For those who face attempts to impose regulations limiting beekeeping based upon this sort of alarmist stuff, you can save a copy of this, a document that has been said to have been helpful in defusing overly restrictive "regulatory efforts" : "Oh, Death Where Is Thy Sting?" Bee Culture, 2005 http://bee-quick.com/reprints/stingdeath.pdf As a point of interest, the data on actual bee-sting events vs wasp/hornet would be trackable, as emergency room staff tend to notice things like stingers, and remove them from victims. It follows that if there are no stingers, the insect was not a honey bee. No one reports or tracks this factoid, but the near 100% digitization of emergency room records makes this a pretty easy thing to "go count", as the data on stingers would not seem to be confidential HIPPA restricted data. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html