Elementary textbook of economic zoology and entomology . elementarytextbo00kell Year: [c1915] WASPS, ANTS AND BEES 197 on the hive when 'observing' is not going on. In such a hive, which will obviously hold but a small community (one of not over 10,000 individuals) any single bee can be kept con- tinuously under observation, as there are no side-by-side frames between which it can crawl and thus be hidden from view. To keep either of such hives in the house it is only necessary to substitute for a pane of glass in a window a thin wooden pane in which is cut a narrow horizontal opening, the si
Elementary textbook of economic zoology and entomology . elementarytextbo00kell Year: [c1915] WASPS, ANTS AND BEES 197 on the hive when 'observing' is not going on. In such a hive, which will obviously hold but a small community (one of not over 10,000 individuals) any single bee can be kept con- tinuously under observation, as there are no side-by-side frames between which it can crawl and thus be hidden from view. To keep either of such hives in the house it is only necessary to substitute for a pane of glass in a window a thin wooden pane in which is cut a narrow horizontal opening, the size of the regular hive-opening (if the latter is too broad it can be FIG. 92.—An ordinary bee-hive made into an observation hive by inserting glass panes in sides and putting a glass sheet under the wooden cover. closed for a few inches at each end). Or a narrow broad strip of the full width of the window can be inserted so that the lower sash of the window, when closed, will rest upon this strip. In the strip cut a narrow opening of the width, or less, of the hive opening. Set the observation-hive on a table or shelf against the window so that the hive-opening corresponds with that in the window pane or window-strip. Or, better, place it six or seven inches from the window and connect hive and window-opening by a shallow broad tunnel of wooden
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