Beekeepers: This was an email I received from a German scientist and beekeeper who had asked for information on the polariscope mentioned in a previous post. I thought the group might be interested in reading it. Regards, Dick Following up the bee list now for several years I am sometimes surprised that there is no distiction between facts and the own imagination (=it should be that way because I can not think in different terms). This than is taken as a religion. It makes no sense for a scientist to respond to such "non-proven pseudo-facts". This ist best shown by the recent discussion of overwinterung on different honey-sugar types. There are numerous scientific papers on it at least in my country; and the discussion out there is as if such information is non-existent. So the "informed discussion group" in reality is a discussion of mostly "non-informed bee keepers" and worse of those who do not know that they are "non-informed".