Beekeeper*

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Beekeeper smiles and gives me honey for my bread Beekeeper hasn't got a tooth left in his head But his smile's as warm as honey And it's just as easy spread

On Sundays the beekeeper puts on his Sunday best His father's wedding coat and his least worn flannelette He drives down to the catholic church And sets up his honey bench

Beekeeper laughing at a joke that he's just told Beekeeper's church is in the gum trees he beholds His truth is in the honey It's his warmth when he gets cold

The beekeeper looks away and tells me kind of shy Tells me that he hasn't been a beekeeper all his life He says, once he was a worker bee and he wore a suit and tie

He said he couldn't speak the language no matter how he tried He thought that if he listened hard he'd hear some reason why And then one day he just woke up The answer right before his eyes

He was standing in the forest, still and on his own When he felt his senses floating to a kind of mystic drone He said it was like the bees were singing Tryin to call him home

Beekeeper takes me walking shows me all his hives He calls the bees his children; he calls the bush his wife He's says, ' They'll carry my name forward When it comes to be my time'

Beekeeper's distant smile is vaguely mystified He talks of how he struggled to imagine a new life He said he couldn't see it Though it was right before his eyes

Beekeeper beekeeper always on his own Beekeeper says he's never wanted an iPhone He said I mostly ever talk to bees Some people say I drone

found the words he'd finally be inside Wonderin why he always cried =Beekeeping = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 Beekeeping, [|tacuinum sanitatis] casanatensis (14th century)

beekeeping in Serbia Honey seeker depicted on 8000 year old [|cave painting] near [|Valencia, Spain] [|[1]] Depictions of humans collecting honey from wild bees date to 15,000 years ago; efforts to domesticate them are shown in Egyptian art around 4,500 years ago. Simple hives and smoke were used and honey was stored in jars, some of which were found in the tombs of [|pharaohs] such as [|Tutankhamun]. It wasn't until the 18th century that European understanding of the colonies and biology of bees allowed the construction of the moveable comb hive so that honey could be harvested without destroying the entire colony.
 * Beekeeping** (or **apiculture**, from [|Latin] : // [|apis] // " [|bee] ") is the maintenance of [|honey bee] colonies, commonly in [|hives], by humans. A [|beekeeper] (or apiarist) keeps bees in order to collect their [|honey] and other products that the hive produces (including [|beeswax] , [|propolis] , [|pollen] , and [|royal jelly] ), to [|pollinate] crops, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers. A location where bees are kept is called an [|apiary] or "bee yard".

== Contents == [ [|hide] ]
 * [|1 History of beekeeping]
 * [|2 Origins]
 * [|2.1 Wild honey harvesting]
 * [|2.2 Study of honey bees]
 * [|2.3 Invention of the movable comb hive]
 * [|2.4 Evolution of hive designs]
 * [|2.5 Pioneers of practical and commercial beekeeping]
 * [|3 Traditional beekeeping]
 * [|3.1 Fixed comb hives]
 * [|4 Modern beekeeping]
 * [|4.1 Movable frame hives]
 * [|4.2 Top-bar hives]
 * [|4.3 Protective clothing]
 * [|4.4 Smoker]
 * [|4.5 Effects of stings and of protective measures]
 * [|4.6 Natural beekeeping]
 * [|5 Urban or backyard beekeeping]
 * [|6 Bee colonies]
 * [|6.1 Castes]
 * [|6.1.1 Mating of queens]
 * [|6.1.2 Worker bees]
 * [|6.1.3 Drones]
 * [|6.2 Differing stages of development]
 * [|6.3 Structure of a bee colony]
 * [|6.4 Annual cycle of a bee colony]
 * [|7 Formation of new colonies]
 * [|7.1 Colony reproduction: swarming and supersedure]
 * [|7.2 Factors that trigger swarming]
 * [|7.3 Artificial swarming]
 * [|8 Diseases]
 * [|9 World apiculture]
 * [|10 Images of harvesting honey]
 * [|11 See also]
 * [|12 References]
 * [|13 External links]

== History of beekeeping [ [|edit]  ]  == At some point humans began to attempt to domesticate wild bees in artificial [|hives] made from hollow logs, wooden boxes, pottery vessels, and woven straw baskets or " [|skeps] ". Honeybees were kept in [|Egypt] from antiquity. [|[2]] On the walls of the [|sun temple] of [|Nyuserre Ini] from the [|Fifth Dynasty], before [|2422] BCE, workers are depicted blowing smoke into hives as they are removing [|honeycombs]. [|[3]][|[4]] Inscriptions detailing the production of honey are found on the tomb of [|Pabasa] from the [|Twenty-sixth Dynasty] (c. 650 BCE), depicting pouring honey in jars and cylindrical hives. [|[5]] Sealed pots of honey were found in the grave goods of pharaohs such as [|Tutankhamun]. There was an unsuccessful attempt to introduce bees to [|Mesopotamia] in the [|8th century BCE] by Shamash-resh-ușur, the governor of [|Mari] and Suhu. His ambitious plans were detailed in a [|stele] of 760 BCE: [|[4]]  Stele showing Shamash-resh-ușur praying to the gods [|Adad] and [|Ishtar] with an inscription in Babylonian [|cuneiform]. || > I am Shamash-resh-ușur, the governor of Suhu and the land of Mari. Bees that collect honey, which none of my ancestors had ever seen or brought into the land of Suhu, I brought down from the mountain of the men of Habha, and made them settle in the orchards of the town 'Gabbari-built-it'. They collect honey and wax, and I know how to melt the honey and wax - and the gardeners know too. Whoever comes in the future, may he ask the old men of the town, (who will say) thus: "They are the buildings of Shamash-resh-ușur, the governor of Suhu, who introduced honey bees into the land of Suhu." > — translated text from stele, (Dalley, 2002) [|[6]] || In prehistoric Greece ( [|Crete] and [|Mycenae] ), there existed a system of high-status apiculture, as can be concluded from the finds of hives, smoking pots, honey extractors and other beekeeping paraphernalia in [|Knossos]. Beekeeping was considered a highly valued industry controlled by beekeeping overseers—owners of gold rings depicting apiculture scenes rather than religious ones as they have been reinterpreted recently, contra [|Sir Arthur Evans]. [|[7]] Archaeological finds relating to beekeeping have been discovered at [|Rehov], a [|Bronze] and [|Iron Age] archaeological site in the [|Jordan Valley]. Thirty intact hives, made of straw and unbaked clay, were discovered by [|archaeologist] [|Amihai Mazar] of the [|Hebrew University of Jerusalem] in the ruins of the city, dating from about [|900] BCE. The hives were found in orderly rows, three high, in a manner that could have accommodated around 100 hives, held more than 1 million bees and had a potential annual yield of 500 kilograms of honey and 70 kilograms of beeswax, according to Mazar, and are evidence that an advanced honey industry existed in [|ancient Israel] 3,000 years ago. [|[8]] Ezra Marcus, an [|expert] from the [|University of Haifa], said the finding was a glimpse of [|ancient] beekeeping seen in texts and ancient [|art] from the [|Near East]. [|[9]][|[10]]  //The Beekeepers//, 1568, by [|Pieter Bruegel the Elder] In [|ancient Greece], aspects of the lives of bees and beekeeping are discussed at length by [|Aristotle]. Beekeeping was also documented by the [|Roman] writers [|Virgil], [|Gaius Julius Hyginus] , [|Varro] , and [|Columella]. Beekeeping has also been practiced in [|ancient China] since antiquity. In the book "Golden Rules of Business Success" written by [|Fan Li] (or Tao Zhu Gong) during the [|Spring and Autumn Period] there are sections describing the art of beekeeping, stressing the importance of the quality of the wooden box used and how this can affect the quality of the honey. The ancient [|Maya] domesticated a separate species of [|stingless bee].
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