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<blockquote data-quote="NickWallingford" data-source="post: 976" data-attributes="member: 44"><p>I built an observation hive 3 full depth frames high. I used perspex, which 'crazed' pretty soon after, so replaced it with glass. Two critical issues: the glass sides might best be slid down into a groove - if it is flat to the wood, the bees line up to propolise and don't much like that gap of air. Other issue is ventilation/cooling generally. Any place you can incorporate some mesh would be good. It is such an unnatural situation that they struggle to maintain their micro-climate. Oh, yes, and glass was good as I could circle individual cells with a marking pen so students could watch the development from egg to larva to pupa. Though finding the (marked) queen was always exciting, I recall more ooohs and aaahs watching young bees emerge from their cells...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NickWallingford, post: 976, member: 44"] I built an observation hive 3 full depth frames high. I used perspex, which 'crazed' pretty soon after, so replaced it with glass. Two critical issues: the glass sides might best be slid down into a groove - if it is flat to the wood, the bees line up to propolise and don't much like that gap of air. Other issue is ventilation/cooling generally. Any place you can incorporate some mesh would be good. It is such an unnatural situation that they struggle to maintain their micro-climate. Oh, yes, and glass was good as I could circle individual cells with a marking pen so students could watch the development from egg to larva to pupa. Though finding the (marked) queen was always exciting, I recall more ooohs and aaahs watching young bees emerge from their cells... [/QUOTE]
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