"La Puce" wrote in message
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On 10 Jul, 12:16, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
'Killer bees' are not 'back', nothing has changed, it's just that they're
not a problem any more because beekeeping has changed to manage such
colonies.

Oh Mary, did you see a programme a couple of weeks ago about a monk
keeping bees. It was totally amazing and so so beautiful (soul and
spirit cleansing stuff). The monk accepted any creetures around him,
naturally being a buddhist, and he let those 'killer bees' set up
their hives underground, in rocks etc. close to his own bee hives. To
attract his bees to new hives he used an orchid, which the bees
attacked and then took premises in the new beehive. Whole hives could
get wiped out by killer bees, but these only send one killer bee to
see into the bee hives. The bees kept quiet and still until the killer
bee got in fully, and then suddenly all the bees jumped onto the
killer bee and suffocated her.

Amazing stuff. Err.... have you seen this?! And did you know about the
attraction of the orchid?

I didn't know about the orchid, I suspect it has more to do with faith than
fact ... and we haven't a television :-)

Mary