What is Beekeeping?
Beekeeping, also known as Apiculture is the maintenance of Beehives by Humans. The person who maintains the beehives and collects the Bee products or sells the bees to another person is called the Beekeeper. Bees are kept in a location called the Beehive or an apiary. Beekeeping also includes producing cross-breeds, protecting bees from diseases, along with honey productivity. History and Origin of Beekeeping Collecting honey from bee hives has been an ancient culture. Primitive man used to collect honey from natural beehives. Today, with more than 20000 species of Honey Bees apiculture has become a complete science. There are various types of bees like mason bees, bumblebees, Italian bee, European dark bee, Carnilan honey bee, Buckfast bee etc available all around the world. Wild and Domestic Honey Harvesting Extracting honey from wild bee hives was practiced by primitive man and is still continued in some parts of Africa. Today, people harvest honey in artificial hives. Movable as we
