Beehive

Beehive

A very rustic beehive made from locally sourced materials, created by weaving together various plant stems to form a cylindrical container. It measures approximately 1,2 metres in length and 45 cm in diameter.

Unknown

Carmen Pérez Maestro

Spanish

Physical Object

944

Truébano/Colmena

https://www.abejaspaisajeculturalasturias.org/que-buscamos/colmenas/

cm x 45cm x 120cm

current,43.2038384146373,-5.39500544539384;

Spain

Wood

woodwork

Unknown

Beekeeping museum, Tanes, Asturias, Spain

Unknown

A bundle of thin sticks bound together with three plant-based ties.

Beehive

Personal use

Unknown

In traditional Asturian beekeeping, the basic unit of the apiary is the ‘trobo’ (from the Latin dolium, meaning vessel), a name used across most of the Astur-Leonese area; it is also known as ‘truébano’ in regions closer to Cantabria. Inside the trobos, one or two crosses made of thin sticks (rockrose, poplar, heather, etc.) were placed. These, known as justres, are where the bees begin to build their combs, in which they rear brood and store pollen and honey. These combs are not straight, as in modern hives, but take on a variety of shapes and sizes and cannot be removed without breaking. The crosses, or justres, also determined how much comb and honey the beekeeper could harvest, leaving the remainder for the bees to survive the winter.

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