Randy>My understanding was that it was indeed used to kill the bees in skeps.
Eva Crane describing skep beekeeping practices in the Encyclopedia of Insects, 2003
>At the end of the season, bees in some skeps were killed with sulfur
>smoke and all their honey harvested; bees in the other skeps were overwintered …
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