Ron van Mierlo wrote: >Having used the borescope (or boroscope if you like...) in all kinds of >other things, I wondered if any > >beekeepers have thought of applying one to investigate a colony without >having to open the hive? ... >many interesting things could be seen >With the digital cameras around today, even pictures could be taken >through the scope if so wished. I proposed several years ago that this type of flexible video probe should have lashed onto it a sniffer capillary for GC-MS of volatiles. One class of question examined this way could be functions of drones. Movements interacting with workers (& queen?) could be correlated with chemicals in the hive air. R