looks like punched galv 'mesh' extensively used instead of glass in pantry windows and meat safes.
Yes - we had a meat safe at the top of the cellar steps when I was a kid - no fridges or freezers in those days - in summer Mum would drape a wet tea towel over it to keep temperature down. We used to shop locally and almost daily for fresh food so there was usually only butter, cheese and bacon in the meat safe with the occasional cut of meat waiting to be cooked or a fresh caught rabbit.
I guess they could have been travel screens left on after travel...probably so long that the colonies died and were taken over by wax moth?
Yes, and to remember to tend to it to prevent a wax moth infestation taking hold
, but I guess even beekeepers suddenly get sick and/or die...
I'm constantly surprised at what I forget with the bees. For a while I kept finding some frames missing in some of my hives
.. I've got a travel screen on a colony at the moment waiting to move it.....mustn't forget. I'm the only person that knows about it.
I remember we had a meat safe in the pantry with the same mesh to exclude flies from food. Strangely there were hooks in the pantry ceiling to hang hams from unprotected.
