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To: Janice Shell who wrote (20642)	4/19/1998 6:33:00 PM
From: Charliss	Respond to of 108807

<as they were equally interesting to bees....> Yes....I have even heard this said about certain text.

To: Janice Shell who wrote (20642)	4/19/1998 10:26:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

That is just not true. It is colors that are important to bees, not the actual pictures we see. For example, navy and black are VERY bad colors to wear if you don't want to attract bees. You want non-UV radiating colors. White is a good color though. Many flowers have little UV landing strips for bees that humans cannot see with the naked eye, but there are wonderful photographs of them using special filters and film. That person on the loudspeaker was simply a dlot.

To: Janice Shell who wrote (20642)	4/20/1998 12:28:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<Then Kindly Voice went on to explain that we should not wear clothes bearing pictures of food, as they were equally interesting to bees....> I am quite disappointed that X threw cold water on this theory. I had already begun to wonder whether I could attract an excited swarm of young male humans by wearing a t-shirt with an image of me the way I looked in high school on it. Probably not . .

To: Janice Shell who wrote (20642)	4/20/1998 1:04:00 AM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Janice, Research has shown that insects, with specific reference to bees, wasps, hornets, yellow-jackets, and mosquitoes, shun cigarette-smokers, and such has been my experience. Mosquitoes pretty much leave me alone. I was stung by a bee (I believe it was) only once in my life. This occurred while I was mowing a lawn I used to have. I was not smoking at the time. I subsequently attached an ashtray to my lawnmower and it never happened again. I think this is significant, don't you? Holly