Richard Spiekhout asks what brood looks like. The entomologists at Penn State (Scott Camazine, Maryann Frazier, Jennifer Finley et al) have put a bunch of great pictures about bees up on the web - check out http://www.psu.edu/dept/beehive/photgal.html. There are some excellent brood pictures in the honeybee diseases section. For those of you accessing the network via lower speed modems - beware - there are a LOT of pictures in this section of the Penn State website, and they may take a while to download..... Rick Hough, [log in to unmask]