According to Jane Power: > >> (with a smile) "Yup, that's my hobby. I stand in a field and get stung. Have believed since joining that Jane was out standing in her field. I'm enjoying the discussions very much. In regard to hive covers, I staple a #8 screen over the inner cover hole and prop the top with whatever's handy. This winter I happily did this while thinking of the nice chimney I created and completely forgot to install mouse guards in my ten hives. I was greeted by a family yesterday. Haven't kicked them out yet- thought I'd wait until I catch them sitting around their tiny tea table in a petty family argument and evict them at that moment - teach them about perspective. The idea of a mouse moving around unchallenged rekindled an interest in flicker-fusion frequency that I developed many years ago in an animal behavior class. I noticed guard bees reacting to visual cues that I believed could have only varied in terms of "flicker". I mentioned this in my report (I think only for the brownie point value, since the objective had to do with foraging conditions) and have thought about it off and on since. I have thoughts like "what if certain flowers can be identified by the bee through the relative flicker frequency of their petal fringes with whatever atmospheric air flows across". Some Von Fritsch type work might be interesting. - Jack Turner Route 1, Box 657 Wise, VA 24293 [log in to unmask] "...there is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about..." The Water Rat in Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.