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Skeps could also be squeezed in a vise to extract the honey. As of 1998, most US states prohibited the use of skeps, or any other hive that cannot be inspected for disease and parasites. [14] Later skep designs included a smaller woven basket (cap) on top over a small hole in the main skep.
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Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives. Honey bees in the genus Apis are the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such as Melipona stingless bees are also kept.
Sometimes, larger bee boles, or 'bee alcoves' are found, which would take several skeps. A bee shelter is a wooden or stone structure, built against a wall or free-standing, with one or more shelves to accommodate several skeps. A Victorian example is The Bee Shelter at Hartpury in Gloucestershire. [6] The Bee shelter at Hartpury
The once widespread Bienenzaun (bee enclosure) apiary provided plenty of space. Beehives were made from straw into a plaited basket, the Lüneburger Stülper or Lüneburg Skep and, in the 1940s and 50s the Kanitz Basket (Kanitzkorb), named after its inventor, was also used. Because there was not usually enough local forage for the many hives ...
A frame taken out of a Langstroth hive seen on the left of the picture. Before the dimensions of bee space were discovered, bees were mostly hived in skeps (conical straw baskets) or gums (hollowed-out logs that approximated the natural dwellings of bees), or in box hives (a thin-walled wooden box with no internal structure).
Africanized bee – a hybrid bee with characteristics unsuitable for beekeeping [1] Apiary – a yard where beehives are kept; Apicology – ecology of bees; Apiology – scientific study of bees; Apitherapy – a branch of alternative medicine that uses honey bee products including honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom.
Bee skeps and linen baskets are made from coiled and bound together continuous lengths of straw. The technique is known as lip work. The technique is known as lip work. Bedding