Super Folky Old Handmade Bee Box with Removable Queen Bee Carrier and Rich Patina drawing on rice paper with the aim of this

with the aim of this one being getting all the gold pegs to where the silver ones are and vice verse

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Super Folky Old Handmade Bee Box with Removable Queen Bee Carrier and Rich Patina drawing on rice paper with the aim of thisI found this old bee box at the end of an almost completely fruitless day poking around southern Maine last weekend but it alone made the day worthwhile, to my sensibilities really a great one. About as primitive as it gets, but clearly it did its job effectively, as the patina to the interior of this box a rich mix of beeswax and grime and who know what all attests to many years of housing bees inside. What I especially like is how the queen bee