ENVS 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Western Honey Bee, Queen Excluder, Langstroth Hive

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Sciences
• Course: ENVS 2210
• Professor: Ernesto Guzman

Document Summary

Human honey hunting. humans hunted bee colonies to steal their honey since at least 9-10 thousand years. Honey and wax have been widely used by humans since ancient times. Stingless bees existed in the na, others did not exist in america. In africa, found prehistoric painting depicting humans hunting honey. Beekeeping is present after humans found ways to keep bees during the winter in boxes. Beekeeping probably started when humans learned to safeguard swarms and colonies by a certain amount of care, keeping them in human-made hives. The earliest records of beekeeping come from ancient egypt, and date to about 4-5 thousand years ago. Used honey as sweetener, medicine, and alcoholic beverage. Kept bees in clay cylinders, then transferred in the nile river to help with pollination in different locations. Used smoke to drive the bees out of the hive and calm them down to harvest honey.