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But Harvard Professor Matthew S. Meselson is persisting in his claim that yellow rain is instead the feces of wild honeybees. Bee feces, Meselson and a Yale colleague have found, bear strong resemblances--in size, appearance, and characteristics--to alleged samples of yellow rain, many of which in fact contained...
In various parts of Thailand, the scientists found what they said was the first evidence that Southeast Asian honey bees actually do perform defecation flights, which produce yellow spots similar to what the government has alleged is evidence of yellow rain.
"People do not recognize these spots for what they are," Meselson said at last week's press conference. "They are in fact the feces of wild honey bees."
Meselson: they [the yellow spots] have the same diameter as bee feces. They have the same color and texture as bee feces. They have the same number of drops per square foot. The areas that are reported to be covered--a fraction of an acre up to quite a few...
Meselson: Yes, but we have found spots where the composition was very different. That's also true with bee feces because no two bees eat the same meals. They eat differently. They store the pollen heterogeneously and they eat it heterogeneously. So if this had been an agent of warfare...