bee gum

"You know that there were bee gums at the edge of my garden?

Once at the house, I'll nail a bit of wood top and bottom, to make a bee gum."

In the past, the hollow trunks were used as "bee gums" to hold beehives.

The row of bee gums stood squat on their stones at the edge of the wood.

Hollow sections of black tupelo trunks were formerly used as bee gums by beekeepers.

Bee gums are still used by beekeepers today, for bee species that do not make (large quantities of) honey.

Some villages construct bee gums with the hopes that a colony of bees will nest their and their honey can be harvested.

"Your bees," she went on, "is your mead, your wax, your bee gum, your honey.

There are three basic styles of traditional beehive; mud hives, clay/tile hives, skeps and bee gums.

The bee gum allows the bees themselves to make their hive (hive structure and cells in which to store their honey and pollen).

Straw skeps, bee gums, and unframed box hives are now unlawful in most US states, as the comb and brood cannot be inspected for diseases.

I made a mental note to keep away from the end of the garden where the row of bee gums sat; newly moved bees were inclined to sting first and ask questions afterward.

Unlike most manmade beehives (which are usable only with Apis mellifera and Apis cerana), the bee gum allows housing of many more bee species.

The murmur in the house below reminded her of her mother's summer hives; a thrum that you could hear if you put your ear against one of the bee gums, a distant sound of busy content.

In the half-second between the first sting and the next, I had glimpsed one of the bee gums lying on its side in the dirt just inside the gate, combs and honey spilling out of it like entrails.

A group of infantrymen from the 43rd had located several bee hives to the rear of the mansion, and had grabbed the bee gums and come running around the side of the house, with bees streaming out of the hives behind them.

Ian snapped his fingers at the dog, who leapt gracefully over the row of bee gums and basket hives that sat at the far end of the garden, trotted up to his master, dropped the ball at his feet, and stood genially panting, yellow wolf-eyes fixed with apparent interest on me.