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  2. Beehive - Wikipedia

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    The Dartington was originally developed by Robin Dartington so that he could keep bees on his London rooftop. Beehaus Hive: A proprietary design for a beehive launched in 2009 based on the Dartington long deep. It is a hybrid of the top-bar hive and a Langstroth hive. Layens Hive: Developed by Georges de Layens in 1864. This hive is a popular ...

  3. Beehive oven - Wikipedia

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    It gets its name from its domed shape, which resembles that of a skep, an old-fashioned type of beehive. Its apex of popularity occurred in the Americas and Europe all the way until the Industrial Revolution, which saw the advent of gas and electric ovens. Beehive ovens were common in households used for baking pies, cakes and meat.

  4. Stewarton hive - Wikipedia

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    The Stewarton hive is a type of historical bee hive.Extra boxes below allowed expansion of the brood, and thus strongly inhibited swarming and any tendency for the queen to enter the honey boxes, while expansion with extra honey boxes above the brood area gave ample space for the bees to create surplus honey stores that were easily harvested by the beekeeper.

  5. Horizontal top-bar hive - Wikipedia

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    A top-bar hive is a single-story frameless beehive in which the comb hangs from removable bars. The bars form a continuous roof over the comb, whereas the frames in most current hives allow space for bees to move up or down between boxes.

  6. Euconulidae - Wikipedia

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    These minute snails have a shell which is roundly conical and broad-based, like the shape of an old-fashioned European woven bee hive or skep. For this reason these snails are sometimes known as "hive snails". The shells of most Euconulidae are only about 3 mm in size, amber-colored and translucent.

  7. Beekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Supersedure is a valued behavioral trait because hive that supersedes its old queen does not lose any stock; rather it creates a new queen and the old one either naturally dies or is killed when the new queen emerges. In these hives, bees produce only one or two queen cells, most often in the center of the face of a broodcomb. [92]