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This glossary contains some basic terms about beehive and beekeeping equipment.

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Queen excluder is a mesh inside the beehive that allows worker bees to move but prevents the larger queens to access the honey super, so they can only lay eggs in the brood chamber.

Domain: Agriculture; Industrie/Domeniu: General agriculture

Section super of a beehive is a part of a commercial beehive that is used to collect honey. It is filled with frames in which honeycombs are placed. Bees use honeycombs as storageroom.

Domain: Agriculture; Industrie/Domeniu: General agriculture

The inner cover of a beehive protects the frames and inside of a hive, as well as the bees and their products. Inner cover insulates the hive.

Domain: Agriculture; Industrie/Domeniu: General agriculture

Outer cover of a beehive is placed over the topmost part of a hive, it protects the hive from rain, snow, dust and any other external factors.

Domain: Agriculture; Industrie/Domeniu: General agriculture

Dadant-Blatt hive provides a large, deep brood chamber with plenty of room in which the queen could lay, and shallower supers for honey storage.

Domain: Agriculture; Industrie/Domeniu: General agriculture

Langstroth hive is a hive in which bees build honeycomb into easily movable frames. It is the most used hive today since it is built to collect honey very easily.

Domain: Agriculture; Industrie/Domeniu: General agriculture

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