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Is ancient beehives good for beekeeping

There are pros and cons, nothing good or bad.

The traditional beehive is the oldest beehive in use in China, and in fact was used before the introduction of the live-frame beehive. The advantage is that honeybees, especially Chinese bees, reproduce more naturally in the traditional beehive, for example, colonies of bees reproducing in a drum beehive are almost completely in a wild state. The biggest disadvantage of the traditional hive is that it is not easy to manage the colony, because the hive spleens in the traditional hive are fixed on the upper wall of the hive, unlike the live-frame hive where the spleens can be adjusted according to the beekeeper's wishes, and the traditional hive is extremely inconvenient to retrieve the honey, and each time you retrieve the honey it is almost fatal for the bee colony.