Observation Hive

Honey
Nectar Plants
Composition
How To Store
How Bees Make Honey
The Harvest
Extracting
CooKing
Medicinal
Beauty

Beekeeping
History
Art Of Beekeeping
Equipment
Apiary
Stings
Predators
Spring Care
Wintering Bees
Feeding Bees
Products Of The Hive
Swarms
Managing Colonies
Bee Mite

Honey Bees
Social Insect
Queen
Worker
Drone
Virgin
Stings
Products of the Hive

Legal Stuff

History

The history of bee keeping as we know it began in 1851 when the
Reverend L.L. Langstoth made the simple discovery of bee space, resulting in a revolution in hive design.
He discovered bees will not construct honey comb in spaces less than
3/8 inch(9.5mm)

In the Langstronth hive, bee space separates each of the frames in the hive, the hive walls, and the top of the inner cover.
With out this space the bees would fill the hive with (bees wax) burr comb. The frames could not be removed.

Before this time the hive was destroyed harvesting the honey.