>This may not go a long way toward evironmentally friendly . . . how
>about plastic 35mm film canisters?  They will hold an ounce or two,
>holes are easily made, water resistant and won't shatter.  You should
>be able to get them from a film developer.
>-- John Taylor --
 
An equally unfriendly but perhaps better design might be those obnoxious
little "disposable" "air freshener" devices, such as the disk-like ones
with little ventilation slots. Some even have adhesive on them - you could
just stick them to the hive bottom.
 
Doug Yanega       Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA      phone (217) 244-6817, fax (217) 333-4949
 affiliate, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Entomology
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  "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
        is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82