Hi Trevor & All,

> So why are moveable frame hives archaic?
>

I'll bit too.
Not as much archaic as against the nature of the bee. Archaic to me would be
like ancient, but maybe someday movable frame hives will be ancient and most
beekeepers will use skeps or other forms of hives where bees are allowed to
build comb to their liking instead. Maybe then feral bees will make a
comeback and bees in nature will be happy bees again. c]:~)>

Natural comb is not at all straight and narrow like frames in Langs.

 . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
c(((([ , Apiarian, http://takeoff.to/alaskahoney/,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Norlandbeekeepers/ ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ApiarianBreedersGuild/

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