When I was a teen, I was known as "the girl who picks up bees" because I was always toting around some bumblebee I'd picked up at the local spring. (They would congregate on the mud to get water, and I found that if I put a little water on my finger, I could pick them up and keep them happily lapping up liquid while I toted them around and showed them off to friends. A little sugar-water worked just as well on the honeybees.) Needless to say, I had a bit of a reputation as an eccentric...but aren't all bee folks? ;-) Jane B. [[log in to unmask]]