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<blockquote data-quote="NickWallingford" data-source="post: 980" data-attributes="member: 44"><p>Indeed. I have seen a similar design, and figured some variation would have been much better than what I had. I may be confusing several of my observation hives from over the years. I'm almost sure I put the perspex (and subsequently, glass) direct to the wood, with clips screwing into the wood to retain it - and it was that join/air gap that the bees were obsessed by. I think it was a smaller (one frame) obs hive I made later than had the glass slot down into it. But it was eminently a 'make up and take to a school/etc to show them, then bring it back and put it back with the real colony' sort of thing. I always had ambitions of an obs hive with a size and design that could make it nearly self-sustaining (at least compared to the above attempts). Though I never made one, the design of the OP has always intrigued me...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NickWallingford, post: 980, member: 44"] Indeed. I have seen a similar design, and figured some variation would have been much better than what I had. I may be confusing several of my observation hives from over the years. I'm almost sure I put the perspex (and subsequently, glass) direct to the wood, with clips screwing into the wood to retain it - and it was that join/air gap that the bees were obsessed by. I think it was a smaller (one frame) obs hive I made later than had the glass slot down into it. But it was eminently a 'make up and take to a school/etc to show them, then bring it back and put it back with the real colony' sort of thing. I always had ambitions of an obs hive with a size and design that could make it nearly self-sustaining (at least compared to the above attempts). Though I never made one, the design of the OP has always intrigued me... [/QUOTE]
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