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A top-bar hive has bars from which the honey bees attach and hang wax comb, an array of hexagonal (six sided) cells. A beekeeper can make top bars from any plain wood. The top bars are usually 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 to 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in (32 to 35 mm) wide, depending on local conditions and the type of bee to be housed. Combs can be handled individually.
During the construction of hexagonal cells, wax temperature is between 33.6–37.6 °C (92.5–99.7 °F), well below the 40 °C (104 °F) temperature at which wax is assumed to be liquid for initiating new comb construction. [9] The body temperature of bees is a factor for regulating an ideal wax temperature for building the comb. [10]
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[3] [4] Today, the Langstroth hive is the most common design in many parts of the world. In the UK the national hive is more commonly used. A smaller hive, the Smith hive is often used in Scotland, especially when bees are taken to the Heather moors. Historically the larger Dadant hive was used in most of Europe.
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Painted wooden beehives with active honey bees A honeycomb created inside a wooden beehive. A beehive is an enclosed structure where some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes nest from hive.
1665 Robert Hooke discovers that the natural cellular structure of cork is similar to the hexagonal honeybee comb. 1859 Charles Darwin states that the comb of the hive-bee is absolutely perfect in economizing labour and wax. 1877 F. H. Küstermann invents a honeycomb moulding process using a paper paste glue mixture.