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Beekeeping Plans

URL:http://www.extension.uiuc.edu/~vista/html_pubs/BEEKEEP/CHAPT2/chapt...
Category:Garden Miscellaneous
Date added:2011-09-08
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Beekeeping plansFree Beekeeping plans - Assembling a beehive, parts of a beehive. This design has larger spaces for bees to build extra comb. oney bees have been kept by man in a wide variety of hives. In the early days of the United States the most common hive was a section cut from a hollow tree, called a gum or log gum, with a slab of wood to cover the top of it. In Europe the straw skep hive was common and one model used in Greece had movable combs. In most other early hives it was not possible to remove or exchange combs easily because the bees glued everything firmly together and their combs were not surrounded by wooden frames. In 1851, L. L. Langstroth designed an improved hive that utilized a principle discovered earlier and now called the bee space. He made a hive in which the frames hung within a box so that they were surrounded on all sides by a space of 1/4 to A inch. Bees leave such a space open but smaller spaces are usually filled with propolis. In larger spaces bees build extra comb. Langstroth's design is now used in all modern beekeeping equipment and, although the dimensions and some details have been changed, the hive is still called the Langstroth hive.


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