HOME SWEET COMB
by Casey Ellery
1. Did you now that bees allso make threre nests in hollows in trees or rocks.
2. The langstroth hive is a box with four sides a roof at the top and a floor at the bottom.
3. Did you now that 5 thousand years ago the Egyptians started making hives for honey bees.
4. Top bar hives have been used for thousands of years.
5. Did you know the oldest beehives ever discovered are 3000 years old.
6. Langstroth observed that bees leave a gap of about 7-9 millimetres between honycombs.
7. Did you now many cultures weave basket beehives because they are cheap and easy to make.
8. In some coutries people made hives from strow and hung them from a hook in a bee bole[ a niche built into a wall to protect a hive from the weather].
