Any one starting beekeeping today may not realize the discovery, manufacture, assembly, and use of the frames in a beehive. If you captured a swarm of bees and put them in a plain box that the bees accepted as their home, you would soon find the box filled with honeycomb that twists and turns in many directions and that the box will not be easily opened without destroying some of the comb. This leaves you scratching your head as you may have noticed that in early times bees were kept in clay pots, skeps, and log gums. What is not mentioned is how the early beekeepers got the bees to accept these containers as their home. One of the most important items that the early beekeeper did was to wedge one or more sticks across the inside top of the container, giving the bees a place to hang and the sticks would serve as guides for the comb.
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