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At 12:18 AM 1/23/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I wrote a few months ago requesting suggestions for an interactive bee
>exhibit. Thank you for all the replies I received. I am hoping that
>some of you can help me once again. Does anyone know how I can find a
>natural honeybee hive that could be put on display? I personally have
>only seen them in pictures, and I assume that children are most familiar
>with the ones from which Pooh Bear thieves or those they might see in
>Honeycomb commercials. The opposition between natural and human-made
>hives would be interesting and educational.
Hi Andrea,
For a natural bee hive you could take a hollowed out log, cut a portion of
it out and
replace the cut out portion with Plexiglas. This would give you a "natural"
observation
hive. Package bees could be introduced to your new natural hive. This
would give you
an opportunity to observe the bees start a brand new colony.
The Academy of Natural Sciences, in Philadelphia, maintains a natural type
observation
hive. I'll be going there next month to see the spider exhibit there. I'll
see if I can take apicture of the hive for you. Do you have a graphic image
viewer? If you do I'll have the photo scanned and I'll send it to you via
email.
Pete, NJ
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