Cross Comb Baffle

Because the girls were building cross comb straight through my aluminum/cloriplast comb baffles, I modified one to try to get them to build strait without continuing through the baffle. the baffle is much longer. It goes pretty much all the way down with space on the sides. I cut a few holes in the middle (Jared's idea) to let the bees through. We're thinking that this way it still feels like part of the hive/nest instead of a separate space.

We've got these in 2 hives now. We'll see how they doo.

In the above picture you can see that they had built straight through the cloriplast baffle I had insterted between the cross comb and the empty bar. They built semi straght comb but it was still not straight.

This is the aluminum baffle. You can see the space around and through the middle.