So I've painted the "floor" of several of my new bottom boards with 
this lumunious glow in the dark paint. When ya shine a flashlight on 
the entrance it will glow a lime green color (It takes a DIRECT beam 
of light to activate it so I couldn't light up the area of the bottom 
board under the brood frames). A bunch of bees, guard bees?? came out 
to see what's happening and milled around till the the glow started 
to fade. Pretty neat, but after watching this for a while the idea 
hit me to try putting a INFRARED cyalume lightstick at the hive 
entrance of a old non lumunious bottom board hive.-----This is like 
the standard shake and break light sticks you can buy but the plastic 
tube filters out all of the light but infrared. The only way one can 
tell if it's working or not is to use night vision equipment. It was 
working pretty good, couldn't see any glow from it as I held it in my 
hand but was visible from 100 yards away with my night vision 
monocular. When I put it at the hive entrance several hundred bees 
covered it up, half an hour later there was still a full "front 
porch" of em checking it out. Animated and moving around on the 
entrance like they can see from the infrared illumination, which is 
lit up like a 24 hour convienence store with the night vision 
monocular. Then again it dosen't take much to amuse some people, or 
bees

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