Beekeeping: Backyard Beekeeping: Essential Beginners Guide to Build and Care For Your First Bee Colony and Make Delicious Natural Honey From Your Own Garden
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Don't Worry BEE HAPPY! Start your Bee colony today !
There are 140,000 beekeepers in the United States keeping 3.2 million beehives. American beekeepers produced 200 million pounds of honey a year. In addition, honey bees pollinate and make possible many of the fruits and vegetables that make up the American diet.
In fact, the annual contribution of honey bees to crop pollination and production is over nine billion dollars. But to tell the truth, these are not the reasons why many beekeepers have kept bees. Most keep bees because they enjoy the outdoors.
They enjoy helping a young colony grow in spring. They enjoy watching the bees make honey. They enjoy harvesting, bottling, and selling honey as well. If you raise animals or work with wood, grow a garden or have an entrepreneurial spirit, you might be a candidate for beekeeping.
You'd be surprised at how gentle they can be, and of the many places where you can keep bees. In this book, we'll go ahead and discuss the basics of backyard beekeeping. As an example, we'll set up ten bee hives from scratch--that is with packages of bees in the mail, just like what veteran beekeepers did when they were starting out.
This book will help you follow the progress of this bee yard, or apiary, as it matures and develops in to a full blown colony, so you will see what you can expect. But before we begin, let's look at some other history of beekeeping.
Here Are Some of the Great Stuff You Will Learn:-
•History of Beekeeping
•Starting Your Apiary
•Assembling the Hive
•Preparing Food Supplements and Medications
•Bee Biology, Equipment, and Bee Installation
•Bee Management
•Harvesting, processing and storing the Honey
and Much more!
Why delay?
Start your Own Bee Colony today ! It's cheaper than you think!
Right now you could be enjoying delicious honey right from your backyard, Take action today and Learn vital information on starting Beekeeping by downloading this book Today!
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Chapter 1: History of Beekeeping
For centuries, honey and fruit were mankind's only sweets. Therefore, bees and honey figured prominently in early societies. The Christian Bible is full of references to bees and honey. Beeswax was used in art, and a weatherproof cloth, rustproof metal, and make writing tablets.
There are several opinions as to when bees came to existence. According to some sources, bees were first known to exist 40 million years ago. However, there are claims that honey bee fossils were found and the fossilized remains dated back to as far as 150 million years ago.
According to the earliest records, humans started to consume honey 10,000 years ago. This was evidenced by the historical drawings in caves. In Spain, drawings of beekeeping practice date back to between 6,000 and 8,000 years ago. In Eastern Spain, you can find the Cuevas de la Araña (or the Spider Caves) whose rock art depicts an image of a person gathering honey from a tree. These groups of caves are discovered in Bicorp, Valencia by Jaime Gari i Poch, a local teacher. These rock art was among the Rock Art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin of the World Heritage Site.
At first, people simply hunted bees in hollow trees or cave, and destroyed their nest to get the honey and beeswax. But by 2400 B.C., ancient Egyptians had learned to keep bees in clay pots, and probably did not kill their colonies at harvest time. Ancient Greeks and Romans kept bees. It was also at this time that fire and smoke were discovered. Beekeepers during the Niuserra dynasty were illustrated to be blowing smoke into the beehives while the honeycombs were removed. The honey they have collected were stored in earthen jars. Their philosophers wrote romantic, but biologically inaccurate, accounts of bees and their ways.
Rome maintained commercial apiaries in Spain. During the dark ages, there was little advancement in beekeeping. However, in monasteries--the only oasis of literacy at that time--bees were kept, honey was produced, beeswax candles were made, and the ancient bee text of the Greeks and Romans were preserved.
During the middle ages, beginning about 1500 years ago, beekeepers started cutting trees that contain bee nests and keeping the long sections as hives. At this time, the well-known straw skep appeared. During Europe's discovery of the Americas, honey bees followed shortly thereafter. We don't know when or where bees were introduced to North America, but by the 1640s they were well established along the eastern