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Log beekeeping in the Valley of Carranza (Bizkaia)

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Posted on 2017-10-06 in

Apiary in La Calera del Prado (Valley of Carranza), 1999. Miguel Sabino Díaz.

The log hive, known locally as cepo, has since time immemorial and until barely a few decades ago been the ideal place to site a bee colony for beekeeping in Valley of Carranza apiaries. Fixed in a vertical position, as tradition dictates, this type of hive consisted of a dead or hollowed-out tree trunk on whose walls the bees were to build their honeycombs or tástanas. Sometimes the hive was built with timbers to solve shortage of tree logs. (more…)

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