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On Nov 18, 5:15 pm, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
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I'm involved with the International Bee Research Association's
collection of records of bee boles, concentrating on my own area
primarily.

www.ibra.org.uk/beeboles

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Mary, do you know the origin of the word bole? Is it a bee hole,
distorted over centuries, or something?
Thank you for bringing to my attention something I was not even aware
of.


Cat(h)

Cath, I didn't know, your idea sounds plausible.

I looked in The Archaeology of Beekeeping, by Dr Crane (founder of IBRA, who
died last month) and found this little para. If Eva Crane used that
definition I reckon it's unlikely that it will be wrong - but nobody's
perfect. I can ask her colleague if she knows.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=8ejier7&s=1

It is rather an arcane subject :-)

Mary