<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>And I must add my voice to the protest over the use of the
>term "aggressive".  No such thing as "aggressive" bees.  

Hum, Your protest isn’t being heard by the upper echelon. 
Dewey M. Caron says there are “aggressive bees”

http://www.ento.psu.edu/MAAREC/pdfs/Tips-Handle_Bees-PM.pdf
“Multiple stings may be an indication of aggressive bees.”

Call um, pissed off, frisky, testy, stingy, mad, upset…
When the a colony is ‘proactive’, coming out stinging at the approach of a 
vehicle, instead of 'reactive' to simuli to the colony itself, IMO, that  
is ‘aggressive’.

Joe

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