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<blockquote data-quote="NickWallingford" data-source="post: 987" data-attributes="member: 44"><p>Yes, reading that, I may have been imagining swapping the perspex for glass - and it was a 4 frame unit I had, rather than three. I do remember having it permanently mounted in the living room. Near the Otipua River, outside of Timaru. I saw heaps of dark red/brown pollen carrying bees dancing in the same direction. I worked it out, walked down into the river area - and found them working the lupin. Inter species communication, like when a parrot taught me to whistle the Mexican national anthem...</p><p></p><p>Something I haven't said... As [USER=200]@Dave Black[/USER] says, best if you can have insulation, or at the very least, blackened out covers for when people aren't actually looking at it. Bees probably don't like all that exposure - I'm amazed they can communicate with wag tail dances as well as they do - in the mostly dark of the inside of a hive!</p><p></p><p>But I'll repeat that one (for me) essential feature - you want to be able to block it off and take it outside to work the colony when that is necessary. And given the unnatural sizing of these observation hives, you will need to do a fair bit of that...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NickWallingford, post: 987, member: 44"] Yes, reading that, I may have been imagining swapping the perspex for glass - and it was a 4 frame unit I had, rather than three. I do remember having it permanently mounted in the living room. Near the Otipua River, outside of Timaru. I saw heaps of dark red/brown pollen carrying bees dancing in the same direction. I worked it out, walked down into the river area - and found them working the lupin. Inter species communication, like when a parrot taught me to whistle the Mexican national anthem... Something I haven't said... As [USER=200]@Dave Black[/USER] says, best if you can have insulation, or at the very least, blackened out covers for when people aren't actually looking at it. Bees probably don't like all that exposure - I'm amazed they can communicate with wag tail dances as well as they do - in the mostly dark of the inside of a hive! But I'll repeat that one (for me) essential feature - you want to be able to block it off and take it outside to work the colony when that is necessary. And given the unnatural sizing of these observation hives, you will need to do a fair bit of that... [/QUOTE]
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