John's Beekeeping Notebook
Prokopovych Beekeeping Museum
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The museum in named to honor Petro Prokopovych, a Ukrainian beekeeper who lived between 1775 and 1850. He is credited with being among the first to invest bee hives with movable frames. This allowed the honey comb to be manipulated and honey harvested with only minimal disruption to the bees.
Later, Lorenzo Langstroth of the U,S. improved the frame design by having them hang down inside a hive, with a bee-space surrounding the frame.
