Wards Ap Bio Labpro Lab5 Answers

Apiculture or beekeeping is oriented farming raising bees (genus Apis) and provide the necessary care in order to obtain products that are able to develop and gather to meet the needs that men have of them.

The main product that gets the man in this activity is honey. An indirect benefit resulting from the activity of foraging bees doing the pollination corresponds to performing these insects.

History of beekeeping

The Mesolithic paintings found in the Cave of the Spider, in Bicorp, there are scenes of honey collection, although it is difficult to determine its origin, it is estimated that these paintings could be between 7,000 and 8,000 years old. In the Mesolithic from 10,000 to 5,000 years BC, man begins collecting wild honey from hives in the Neolithic period when he learned to control bees and swarms. There

historical data indicate the existence of beekeeping practices in the Predynastic period in Egypt, moving their hives in boats along the river Nile are papyri dating back to 2400 BC where we can watch practice.

beekeepers for many centuries enjoyed great prestige, the different cultures from ancient Egypt valued this occupation, since it provided the only sweetener, honey, known to the Middle Ages when, after the discovery of America, spread the cane and beet sugar sugar.

The Greeks, who founded Ephesus in 1100-1000 BC in Asia Minor Anatolia in Turkey today, beekeeping revered as the goddess Artemis after the Romans Diana was depicted on coins with the stamp of a bee the years 480 BC. In Thrace was also very common coinage with a bee. The Romans also practiced general beekeeping practices inherited the Hellenistic and made them a cult. Georgics poets works devoted to the description of the instincts, customs, intelligence of bees and the rational exploitation of these animals that never failed to surprise. In general, the stories always more advanced societies of all times, have found traces of knowledge of bees and the rational exploitation of honey and beeswax.

Beekeeping peaked when the only element known to sweeten food was honey. This changed after the discovery of America and as a result of sugar cane, and the importance of beekeeping decreased significantly. But their practice was not interrupted at any time.

The modern beekeeping starts with the creation of the combs and moving pictures, by not destroying them in harvesting honey, beeswax sheets and mechanical harvesters, reaching its peak in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century through the work of scholars such as Arturo Wülfrath Brockhoff, Huber, Dzierzon, Quimby, Langstroth, Brother Adam, Fabre, Hoffman, Miller, Alley, Doolittle, De Hruschka, Mehring, Root, Munn, Miner, Harbison, Wolf, Phillips, Smith, Dadant, Fabre and Farrar. Special mention

Wülfrath Artur B., who established the largest honey bee World Carlota SA call the City of Cuernavaca, Morelos.

Apiculture products

are several products obtained from the tireless work of abejas.Los traditional products extracted from the hives have been honey and beeswax.

past, the role played by the wax was perhaps greater than the honey, because of its use in the manufacture of lamps or candles and other important applications, such as waterproofing the wood, rope, leather, cloth, etc.

With the development of new techniques for storing, handling and mechanisms for collection has also begun to collect pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom (apitoxina).