Gentlemen, I think there is no need to call the man with the hair gel an idiot or the bees that were attracted, unacceptably aggressive. If we ignore the sensational tone of the newsreport (and accept the reported bee behavior as factual), it is interesting that some odor caused the bees to behave the way they did. The question would be to determine the exact nature of this odor and what kind of possibilities substances like these could offer in controlling bee behavior. Paul van Westendorp [log in to unmask] Provincial Apiarist British Columbia