Father of modern apiculture is considered
the American Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth, who constructed (1851) the European
type hives with removable panels. Surely the same type of contraption was used
in Ancient Greece as well. In Kithira the ancient apiarists used the “adonaki”
which is the ancestor of modern European hives with removable panels.
On the island of Kea, the old apiarists
used the “ipseli” a ceramic contraption that resembled a pot that was then
positioned upside down. The used to collect the honey by wringing the honey combs
with their bare hands, a copious, time consuming and counterproductive task. It
was only after World War One that step by step this method was replaced with
the European type hives.
Eva Kanakaki
Graduate in Greek Literature
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