In this split-plot design a field colony represents a whole plot and one of the four experimental subcolonies is nested within the whole plot (representing a subplot).

You would certainly take the prize for bats in the belfry!--flying off on a wild-goose chase across a country where even the geese need a compass to keep to the course.

the salt-and-pepper effect on an untuned television screen

My emotional bottom came when someone ballsily asked to borrow my ID so he could get in!