Beehive in a glass jar

200709130935 At first, I thought this was a photo of a glass eye with a snakeskin design. Actually, it's a bell jar that was placed over an opening in a beehive.

Here's a slideshow of the bees building the honeycomb inside the bell jar. Link (Via That's How it Happened)

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