>It makes beekeeping so much more pleasant, for both myself, and the bees. How can you speak for the bees? Have to say that I try to use minimal smoke, but often work in the height of flows without lighting the smoker. It saves a great deal of time and with the temper of most of our bees smoke is not needed in certain conditions. But I do know when I need to light a smoker. Best wishes Peter *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html