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Beekeeping
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Romans• Pliny wrote about beekeeping in about 50AD• Wrote about wax, and propolis• Described a transparent (Observation) hive• The Mead consumed by the Celts!• “Bees are the smallest of birds, and are born from the bodies of oxen”
• Virgil wrote about beekeeping in about 40BC • Keep hives:
– Near water– Out of the wind– Away for lizards, moths, and birds
• Emphasized the hives ruler• Praised Bees for their abstension from Sexual intercourse• Spontaneous Generation?
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The Bible
• In Exodus, Cannan is referred to as “The land of milk and honey.”
• King Solomon: "My son eat thou honey, because it is good, and the honeycomb which is sweet to thy taste".
• Samson : “..and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion.”
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Greeks
• 384 BC, Aristotle wrote much about beekeeping.
• Foulbrood
• First to note that honeybee's don't visit flowers of different kinds on one flight, but remain constant to one species.
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India, 500BC
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3000 BC we have written records on migratory beekeeping up and down the
Nile river in ancient Egypt.
Tablet from a Beekeeper pleading for someone to send donkeys to transport his
hives before the floods took them!
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A. Florea Nest
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A. Dorsada Nests
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Royal Jelly in a Queen Cell
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• Wild Bees build their honey combs about 1 and 3/8 inches apart. Honey comb is about one inch wide, so this left a 3/8 inch passageway between the combs.
• Some beekeepers built hives that forced the bees to build combs along "top bars" that were spaced about 1 and 3/8 inches apart.
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2011 – You!
Welcome to Beekeeping!