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Before meeting Julie at the ‘bee house’ i took another sound recording from the Piezo. It’s not turning out as we had hoped but more of that in a minute…

Julie once more helped me by opening up the hive & lifting out the frame with the Piezo inserted in it.

As you can see the bees have built up the wax over the Piezo, but not so much over the wire. They’ve even formed some quite regular comb containing some honey.

Going back to the earlier point about sound capture in the hive & calling upon some other research we’ve been doing it looks like we’ll have to try another approach taking into account the ways in which vibrations are best transmitted throough honeycomb – in art & in science experiments are just that: EXPERIMENTS!!!