Clay wrote: "Don't flame us going in this direction we need time to do the ground work before we can report." I was very careful to have no flames, no matches, not even friction in my post. I applaud the work, I hope there's a solution or at least indicatiobs of positive results. I'd like plausible explanations, but can live without them if none exist. There is no explanation of why smoke quiets bees. Sure, there's speculation of "a fire in the woods", gorged bees, masked pheremones and all that, but noone really knows why smoke quiets bees, it simply does. I use my smoker unquestioningly. Aaron Morris - thinking smoke 'em if you've got 'em!