> either purchase or find a way to borrow (e.g. high school laboratory) a suitable microscope.
Nearly every college has a "surplus property sale" as either an auction or a "yard sale". I was a big fan of the Virginia Tech annual sale, and that's where I got a far better stereo dissecting microscope than any beekeeper would ever need for $20 cash (1990s dollars).
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