One of my favorite flower-garden ornaments was a bee skep. Skeps were the first kind of container for honeybees to occupy and make honey. The only kinds of homes for the bees to now occupy are square ...

Although I've seen pictures of the cone-shaped baskets for years — usually with a bee buzzing about — I never knew what they were. Then Diana Hankins, of Port Byron, sent in a photo a couple of weeks ...