It's craft time in the lab this evening! Who can guess what I just built?
Hint: I'm teaching an apiculture course.
Hint 2: It relates to wayward livestock.

I will attach this device to a tree which is home to a nest of honeybees in order to attempt a "trap out" with my apiculture class. The honeybees will leave the nest but be unable to find a way back in and settle into an adjacent hive box instead.

The odds of getting the colony successfully established in the box with a queen are not high, but it is a unique opportunity for my students and I to learn the technique.