Housing.

For the housing of his bees the bee keeper uses wooden hives with wax frames. In the early days the hives were made of straw.
Because the bees built the frames by themselves, it was difficult to harvest the honey.
The honey harvest of such hives killed most of the bees because the entire hive had to be cut out to get to the honey.
The actual system does not harm the bees. The beekeeper puts at their disposal empty frames with preformed wax which are transformed by our friends, the bees, into real pieces of art.

Who remembers the kind of bee which does this job?

In the lower part the nest is situated. This part (brood chamber) is always present. The winter supply remains in this part as well as the brood nest.
In spring when a lot of young bees are born and the brood chamber becomes to small, the bee keeper adds a super on top of the brood chamber.
To avoid that the queen starts laying eggs in the super, the brood chamber and the super are separated by a queen excluder. This is a flat perforated sheet or metal grill through which the worker bees can pass, but the queen which is bigger has to remain below.
When harvesting honey (end of July), the super is removed and the honey can be harvested.
The bees are removed from the frames with a little brush.