It’s All About the Bees

Beehives have been around for centuries in different shapes, designs and sizes. It wasn’t until the Langstroth design that the beehive actually became standardised. There are still many different types of beehives in use across the world.

The mainstream beehive designs used in South Africa are the Langstroth beehive and Bee Bunka beehive. You can read more about each design here.

The beehive made beekeeping manageable as before the advent of the beehive, bee colonies would be raided for their golden liquid and usually, the colony would be destroyed in the process. This created the need for a manageable method to keep bees, transport them and harvest honey from them without causing damage or destruction to the bee colony.