[log in to unmask] wrote: 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.

Thought the above note might be of interest to some BEE-L subscribers.
MIKE   south-central Alabama

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