langstroth in A Sentence

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    In the United States, the Langstroth hive is commonly used.

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    Many other hive designs are based on the principle of bee space first described by Langstroth.

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    It is not unusual to see some other sorts of hive Smith, Commercial, WBC, Langstroth, and Rose.

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    Langstroth, revered as the"father of American apiculture"; no other individual has influenced modern beekeeping practice more than Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth.

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    Langstroth's book, The Hive and Honey-bee, published in 1853, described his rediscovery of the bee space and the development of his patent movable comb hive.

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    However, the Langstroth and Dadant designs remain ubiquitous in the US and also in many parts of Europe, though Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France and Italy all have their own national hive designs.

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    Langstroth's design for movable comb hives was seized upon by apiarists and inventors on both sides of the Atlantic and a wide range of moveable comb hives were designed and perfected in England, France, Germany and the United States.

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    Langstroth was the first person to make practical use of Huber's earlier discovery that there was a specific spatial measurement between the wax combs, later called the bee space, which bees do not block with wax, but keep as a free passage.

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    Having determined this bee space(between 5 and 8 mm, or 1/4 to 3/8"), Langstroth then designed a series of wooden frames within a rectangular hive box, carefully maintaining the correct space between successive frames, and found that the bees would build parallel honeycombs in the box without bonding them to each other or to the hive walls.

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