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A skep is what honey bees were kept in until near the end of the 19th century when hives with movable frames were introduced. They were often made from twisted straw or raffia type material and were cone shaped.

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What are straw beehive's called?

A skep.


What type of creature would live in a skep?

A skep is a traditional beehive made from woven straw or grass, typically used for keeping honeybees. Therefore, the primary creatures that would live in a skep are honeybees, which form colonies and produce honey. These bees create intricate hexagonal wax cells within the skep for storing honey and raising their young. Other creatures, such as wasps or pests, may occasionally be found around or inside a skep, but honeybees are the main inhabitants.


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What is a domed beehive made of twisted straw?

A Skep.


If you dropped out of primary school will it be possible to skep to high school instead?

Not unless you were EXTREMELY smart.


I would like to rear honey bees at my garden. how to prepare a skep?

Ask a beekeeper. Do not attempt this on your own!


What has the author E Nobbs written?

E. Nobbs has written: 'Make your own skep and revive a lost art'


What do beekeepers keep bees in?

Normally a wooden hive in the Western World. In some parts of Africa you could find them using a sort of hollowed out log instead. Historically UK beekeepers used a woven straw skep (in earlier times still it might have been a mud & straw skep) but these were superseded by the hives we see today.


Use vespiary in a sentence?

He wonder why he never got any honey until a local beekeeper informed him that he had a vespiary filled with wasps, not a skep filled with bees.


What is the buliding housing nz minister's offices is called?

The Beehive is a descriptive (shape [skep] - not activity) term for the circular building housing mainly the Prime Minister and the Cabinet holders.


Do some natural beehives actually look like a stack of different-sized donuts?

No, no natural beehives look like a stack of different-sized donuts. You're probably thinking about a 'skep' which is the way that beekeepers kept their bees about 150 years ago.


What does picture in a picture mean?

when there is a picture in a picture, we use the term, "inscribing" This is because, there is a picture, inside another picture.