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Burr comb

Description:

Also known as brace comb or bridge comb, our honey bees build this annoying stuff in places where they find there's too much open space in the hive. We scrape it out because it makes working with the hive frames all the more difficult. It is quite beautiful, though. My boyfriend took this photo using a diffused strobe for backlighting.

Notes:

http://www.honeybeesuite.com/?p=506

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5 Comments

Seema
Seema 11 years ago

great architecture

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Wow!!!

Nicholas4
Nicholas4 12 years ago

Amazing Geometric structures built by the honey bee!! I used to help my Great Grandma and I know its tedious to tend bees, but the rewards are phenomenal.. Nothing like real honey!!
Beautiful shot

iPlayBanjoNow
iPlayBanjoNow 12 years ago

Thanks, Heather. That's exactly right - just another thing to pull apart.

HeatherMiller
HeatherMiller 12 years ago

It's a cool picture. Sorry it's annoying. I assume it's annoying to bee keeping?

iPlayBanjoNow
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iPlayBanjoNow

Hudson, New York, USA

Spotted on May 22, 2011
Submitted on May 24, 2011

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