Tayfield Bee House
Mairi Shiels
This is a Victorian bee house, beautifully restored in 2020. It is one of only five known in Scotland, and probably the only wooden one. It has now been listed as a building of historical importance. It is believed to have been brought to Tayfield by boat around 1850. The actual hives were on shelves inside, with a different coloured entrance for each hive. Did the bees recognise the colours, or did they home in instinctively on their own hive? The hives could be worked from inside the bee house, and each hive had a glass observation window on its rear wall. It was probably last used as a bee house in the 1950s.
Creator
Mairi ShielsDate of creation
2020Date of coverage
1850 - 1920Place
Newport-on-Tay, Tayfield EstateContributor
Mairi ShielsLicense
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)Reference number
NOT.1414Format
Photograph (1409)
Area
Newport (1194)
Subject
Tayfield Grounds (22)
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