Hi All I have just got back from showing a TV crew from a local satellite/national channel around the cape bee. We got some great shots and spent hours with the camera's right up close to open frames and after the first hour or so they did as I do and wore no gear - an nobody got stung. anyhow, we wished to get pictures of the bees on a local aloe, aloe speciosa which has a red flower, but the open flowers are white. The bees were not on the aloes, despite the fact I had 20+ hives in the area. So I put some sugar water on a flower and held it in front of the hive. Then once a few bees were on it I took it back to the aloe stand, and withing half an hour all the flowers were covered with bees. The next day the bees were there early working away. So the question is, do bees sometimes need to be 'educated' as to how and where a flow is?? Keep well Garth Garth Cambray Camdini Apiaries Grahamstown Apis mellifera capensis Eastern Cape Prov. South Africa Time = Honey After careful consideration, I have decided that if I am ever a V.I.P the I. may not stand for important. (rather influential, ignorant, idiotic, intelectual, illadvised etc)