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- Beehive Created from a Hollow Log, 1850-1900 - Colonists who relocated from European countries and settled in North America imported <em>Apis mellifera</em> to ensure access to honey and to sustain crops that they moved with their bees. When honeybees swarmed into hollow trees, colonists sometimes cut out the tree and moved it closer to their gardens, orchards, and clover fields to keep honey close to the kitchen table.
- 1850-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Beehive Created from a Hollow Log, 1850-1900
Colonists who relocated from European countries and settled in North America imported Apis mellifera to ensure access to honey and to sustain crops that they moved with their bees. When honeybees swarmed into hollow trees, colonists sometimes cut out the tree and moved it closer to their gardens, orchards, and clover fields to keep honey close to the kitchen table.