Fatal Exception thrown when deleting field collection field from node

I created a field collection called 'location' when I meant to name it 'locations'

To correct the problem, I added a new field collection field to the node called "locations" no problem.

Then, I deleted the field collection field named "location" from the node, and got a horrible error:

EntityFieldQueryException: Unknown field: field_location in EntityFieldQuery->addFieldCondition() (line 770 of drupal-7/includes/entity.inc).

If we are not allowed to delete the field collection field from the node until the field collection is deleted, please disable the 'delete' link.