Petro Prokopovych (1775–1850, Ukrainian: Петро Прокопович) was a Ukrainian beekeeper, the founder of commercial beekeeping and the inventor of the first movable frame hive. He introduced novelties in traditional beekeeping that allowed great progress in the practice. Among his most important inventions was a hive frame in a separate honey chamber of his beehive. He also invented a crude queen excluder between brood and honey chambers. Petro Prokopovych was also the first to ever model a 'bee beard' after deliminating and calculating 'bee swarm behaviour", inspiring imitators for generations.
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1775 Mytchenky (Митченки), Russian Empire
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1850 (aged 74) Palchyky, Russian Empire
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