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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.
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
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In medieval times in northern Europe, although skeps and other containers were made to house bees, the honey and wax were still extracted after the bee colony was killed. [27] This was usually accomplished by using burning sulfur to suffocate the colony without harming the honey within.
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).
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These frames were a major improvement over the old method of beekeeping using hollowed tree trunks and skeps. However, no method had been found to easily extract the honey. The extractor was invented in the summer of 1865, by Franz Hruschka, a former Officer in the Austrian Army who was by then a beekeeper in Italy. The exact date of the ...