Scott Mitchell wrote (in part): ) I >wanted to comment on my hives in Va. Early in the fall I saw curtains of >Propolis being drawn to cover the entrance. In our studies of feral bee colonies on Santa Cruz Island, we frequently had the same observation --- not just a curtain, but a wall of propolis (with vertical ribs on the inside surface) --- so that the entrance was nearly sealed. Adrian Adrian M. Wenner (805) 963-8508 (home phone) 967 Garcia Road (805) 893-8062 (UCSB FAX) Santa Barbara, CA 93106 **************************************************************************** ******* * * "The history of physics is the history of giving up cherished ideas." * * Andrew Strominger, Harvard physicist (1999) * **************************************************************************** *******