One of my favorite flower-garden ornaments was a bee skep. Skeps were the first kind of container for honeybees to occupy and make honey. The only kinds of homes for the bees to now occupy are square ...

Although I've seen pictures of the cone-shaped baskets for years — usually with a bee buzzing about — I never knew what they were. Then Diana Hankins, of Port Byron, sent in a photo a couple of weeks ...

Honey has a history going back to 2100 B.C. It is mentioned in some Babylonian writings. It was used for sweetening food, for medicine, for religious ceremonies and even as a form of money. In the ...

Predating today’s modern multiframe beehives was the skep, a handwoven, bell-shaped hive in which bees could build their honeycombs. In terms of apiary technology, the hard-to-manage skeps are ...

Honey has a history dating to 2100 B.C. It is mentioned in some Babylonian writings. It was used for sweetening food, for medicine, for religious ceremonies and even as a form of money. In the 18th ...

Made of coiled grass or straw sewn together with strips of briar, skeps are conical with at least one entrance hole and are placed open-end down. There is no internal structure for the bees so the ...

Tonight, we shine a light on the world of puppetry. Jonathan Edward Cross has closed up shop in NYC after thirty years of puppetry and returned home, hoping to inspire a love for all things puppet ...

CHAMPAIGN, lll. — Honey is the original sweetener, manufactured by honey bees long before humans discovered and appropriated it. Early cave paintings depict honey gatherers, as do ancient Egyptian ...

SCHOOLCHILDREN have helped create a bee-friendly art display at a train station. The Worcestershire Community Rail Partnership (CRP) has unveiled a public display of bee-friendly skeps at ...

AN initiative has been launched to spread awareness of the importance of bees to young people through a creative project. Great Western Railway is hosting a display of bee friendly skeps designed by ...

SCHOOLCHILDREN have helped create a bee-friendly art display at a train station. The Worcestershire Community Rail Partnership (CRP) has unveiled a public display of bee-friendly skeps at ...