1. Top bar hives are very useful to farmers in developing countries because they are much easier to manage than a Langstroth hive, they are easier to build, and they are much cheaper.
2. It says that top bar hives were around for over 200 years before the Langstroth hive was invented. Were top bar hives the first man made bee hive? Or are there other designs people used before the top bar was invented?
3. I thought the design of the portable Greek top bar hive was really cool. I'd like to build one like that just for fun
Reading about top bar hives being invented in the 1600's, I started thinking about Friar Tuck from "Robin Hood", which was written, and set long before the 1600's, and how he keeps bee's. Were people actually keeping bee's that long ago? Or is that just a detail added to more modern versions of the story? If they were keeping bee's, what hive design would they have used?
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