Among the strangest beehives in the world are the painted wooden figures found in a small village in Silesia The oldest is said to date back to the early years of the seventeenth century, when th» property on which they stand belonged to a monastery. The latest were carved more than 100 years ago. The bees go in and out through a hole in the head, and there is a detachable board in the front of each figure to permit trawral & sm>w tDw bw
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 259, 28 July 1932, Page 11
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