The World History of Beekeeping and Honey HuntingRoutledge, 1999 - 682 sider First published in 2000. This comprehensive book represents the first attempt to write a world history of people's use of social bees: how bees' nests were initially hunted for their honey and wax and, later, how the bees were kept in purpose-made hives. Evidence survives from early times in the form of artefacts, pictures and written records, and also human traditions of dealing with bees. Since 1949 the author has had opportunities to travel in over sixty countries, and to see traditional and modern hive beekeeping and also honey collection from nests. She learned much that helped her to piece together some of the long history in the different continents. |
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The Structure of the Book | 1 |
Bumble Bees HoneyStoring Wasps and Honey Ants | 3 |
The Ancestry of HoneyStoring Insects | 7 |
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Africa Africanized bees America Ancient Ancient Egypt apiary Apis cerana Apis dorsata Apis florea Apis mellifera Asia Australia bee nests Bee Wld bees Apis beeswax brood combs cavities cells Chapter colonies Columella containing countries Crane Crete cylinder described drones early east Egypt England Europe European Figure flight entrance florea flowers forage forest frames Greece harvesting honey hive beekeeping hole honey and wax honey bees honey combs honey hunting honey-storing horizontal hives hunters included India insects islands Italian bees known land later log hives Mesoamerica Mesolithic movable-frame hives natural nests nectar nest sites northern plants pollen pottery hives probably produced propolis published queen quoted records referred region Roman round Section shows similar skeps smoke Spain species sting stingless bees survive swarm Table tion top-bar top-bar hives traditional beekeeping traditional hives tree beekeeping Trigona tropical wall wasps wooden woven