marcros
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I am just painting up my collection of mininucs with various odds and sods of old paint. What colours can bees see- Blue and yellow ring a bell, but are there others that are useful for identifying their hive?
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I guess it depends on how many you have. I only have a few and don't paint them but identify them with drawing pins, some map pins and some ordinary ones. That way I am limited to the colours in the box of pins but each has an easy way to identify them. As I only have a few I can spread them around so that they are easily identified by the location rather than the colour for the bees.
