Fecha de publicación: 29/10/2018 Fuente: WIPO "apiculture" The present invention relates to an artificial beehive for use in apiculture. More specifically, by using eco-friendly materials in producing an artificial beehive used for apiculture, the present invention provides a complete beehive which allows bees to lay eggs and store honey and pollen naturally without having to produce beeswax for building a beehive. Conventionally, since it was difficult to provide an elaborate beehive in a complete form, which includes hexagonal prismatic cells, each of which is inclined at 10 deg; or more to prevent contents from spilling out during storing of honey or egg laying, only a foundational frame of the beehive (a beehive base) had been provided so honeybees had to secret beeswax and finish the rest of the beehive, and only artificial beehives with hexagonal prismatic cells having a thickness of about 3 mm had been manufactured. In the present invention, hexagonal prismatic cells are brought to be horizontal on a bottom circular plate by tilting a mold core by 10 deg; or more, to allow the cells to be extracted from the mold after injection, thereby providing the artificial beehive in a complete form. In particular, parts manufactured to touch each other from the inside are manufactured in a hexagonal shape similar to a conventional beehive; and for a beehive shaped like a 5-6 mm pillar that needs to be extended in order to be manufactured in the identical shape as a conventional beehive by having three points, as if in the middle of a triangular pyramid, to intersect one another in front and back directions, a frame was manufactured to have a circular shape, to manufacture the beehive. Since producing about 7,000 or more hexagonal prismatic cells on both sides at once was not convenient with respect to pin resistance, the present invention manufactures one beehive by fitting and inserting prismatic cells, divided in a few parts, into a beehive frame. COPYRIGHT KIPO 2018