Terry Smith of the Green County Beekeeping Commission in Ohio (Rev. Langstroth's home state) teaches beekeeping classes, so she had a sense of the type of person who might check out the new system ...

Since the Civil War era, most beekeepers, we at The Chronicle included, keep bees in stacked wooden boxes called Langstroth hives. The simple design is named after the Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine ...

Keeping a hive is labor of love, with an emphasis on labor. It’s been this way for 170 years, ever since a Philadelphia minister named L.L. Langstroth invented the modern movable-frame hive in 1852.

Members of Kitimbwa Farmers Association in Kayunga District inspect their Langstroth hives. 31 October 2016. ... the managing director, Bee House Products. "There are different types with various ...

A Langstroth hive is so practical that its design has not changed in almost 160 years, until now. The crowdfunded FlowHive drains honey from a comb without requiring its removal.

Getting sightly more technical, the Flow frames are designed to fit either an eight- or 10-frame Langstroth beehive box. The Andersons say a full, eight-frame, deep super would take six Flow ...

The Langstroth hive, named after the American reverend who patented it in 1852, is a simple wooden box with frames that can house the queen and her worker bees, larvae and honey.

The Langstroth Hive: a wooden box that made the industrialisation of the bee possible. Homepage. ... Bee Wilson, The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us, pages 54, 222-225.

Roughly 300,000 robot hives are in use across the U.S., scattered across fields of almond, canola, pistachios and other crops that require pollination to grow.