Hi Ems

Lovely to see you, to meet Beejud, and see all the other fine people of the Kilbarchan area. Look! I even got a smile from Ian for the photograph. Keep looking out for funny bee behaviours.

There were so many questions raised on things like the switching of scout and forager roles, and whether nest scouts are faithful to their choices prior to swarming, that I'm expecting local sales of little pots of coloured paint to rocket and the pages of the Scottish Beekeeper (and the pages of SBAi!) to be full of amateur sleuthing by Kilbarchan investigators.

Gavin