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Horizontal top-bar hive. 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. Hives that have frames or that use honey chambers in summer but which use ...
Clochán. A clochán on the Dingle Peninsula, Kerry, Ireland. A reconstruction of a square-shaped beehive hut at the Irish National Heritage Park, County Wexford. A clochán (plural clocháin) or beehive hut is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly associated with the south-western Irish seaboard. The precise construction date of most ...
The National beehive is specifically designed to house frames detailed in the standard. These are 14 in (360 mm) wide, with a height of either 81⁄2 or 51⁄2 in (220 or 140 mm). In brood boxes, up to twelve frames can be used, but (once propolised), twelve frames are typically too tight a fit for easy use, and eleven frames (with, perhaps, a ...
Manufacturer. various. In beekeeping, a Langstroth hive is any vertically modular beehive that has the key features of vertically hung frames, a bottom board with entrance for the bees, boxes containing frames for brood and honey (the lowest box for the queen to lay eggs, and boxes above where honey may be stored) and an inner cover and top cap ...
Beehive. Painted wooden beehives with active honey bees. A honeycomb created inside a wooden beehive. A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes ...
A new, bomb-proof mail delivery room has already been built at the rear of the building. [11] The Beehive has, since 1992, featured as part of the design of the New Zealand twenty-dollar note. [13] A survey commissioned by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand found that the Beehive is "a New Zealand icon and as such is readily recognisable". [14]