All this probably happened around 700 years before Christ. We can fix this date by the drawings on the caves where prehistoric man lived. It is not difficult for scientists to fix dates on caves based on radio carbon dating of skins and bones along with other organic remnants found in the cave. However, scientists seem to think that the drawings depicted on the walls of the caves tell tales of humans standing around a bee hive and are absolutely unaffected by the bees. Could this mean that they had discovered some pre-historic 'Bee Go' to ward off the bees. Bee Go is a chemical that bee keepers smear on a tray and leave it in the hive to encourage the bees to move to the bottom of the hive.

Man might have discovered that smearing some similar substance on their bodies would prevent the bees from stinging them while they collected the honey from the hive. What is a fact is, however, that man did learn that smoke was a very useful tool in scaring the bees away from the hive while they dismantled it from the tree. This was no guarantee of not getting stung though.

As civilization progressed man learnt to cultivate the honey bee. First indications of bee keeping are the clay and mud pottery scientists have found. Artificial bee hives had been constructed out of clay pottery to encourage bees to build their hives in them. When the honey was ready for harvesting the bees were driven out and the pot was broken to remove the honey.

Swarms of bees were trapped in these containers and kept there captive. Once they decided to make the hive their home the bees were allowed to come and go as they pleased making honey in the process.

Time advanced and so did the human intelligence. Man began to study the habits of bees and made uniquely designed hives for the honey bee. These wooden hives as we know them today are engineered to keep the reproduction part of the hive away from the food (larder) section. This way the bee keeper can only remove the honey combs without disturbing the off spring at the same time not having to remove all the bee's food.

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It is believed that clay, pottery, bowls, and straw baskets were used as artificial beehives. The early age people mastered a way of how to capture swarms of bees into these containers than turn the containers into a beehive.

Many ancient civilizations raised bees for money, and an example are the Myans civilization. The Goddess Mellona was believed to be a protector of the bees by the Aficionados of the Roman history.

It is also believed that the Greeks had respect for honey bees, because at the home off Zeus there is a mountain called Mt. Olympus which was believed that the mountain produces honey provided by the Gods. It is also believed by the Greeks that the bees from this mountain were responsible in the building off Apollo's second temple.

The bee revolution began to increase between 1500's and 1851. 1500's being the year of critical change. A lot was learned about bees such as the cycle of bees, how they lived and produced honey.

Beekeepers began to learn more about the life cycle of bees then decided to design a see through hive that will allow them to see the bees and the honey they produce in the hives.

The first person to design a mobile beehive was Lorenzo Langstroth who is an American. California was the 1st Place in the United States to be introduced to beekeeping then Oregon and Canada followed.

It is estimated that they are over 210,000 beekeepers in the United States today. And it is believed that they are over 2 million active beehives. This goes to tell you that the beekeeping industry is growing at a very fast rate.

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By the way, the beekeeping industry has come a long way from it being a simple hobby to where it's going on tables across the world. Many beekeepers that have not been brought up in a family that practiced this are going to have to really learn fast from an experienced beekeeper that has had years of experience from knowing the biology and study of bees and what to expect when they turn out a good product of honey.

Most people who are in this are actually doing this as a hobby. Having a hobby and a livelihood are two entirely different areas since one is something you invest time and in some cases money and one is when you're trying to make a living at.

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Beekeeping is dependent on the activity of the bees and how well they produce honey since bees produce in certain climates and temperatures. If you're expecting to thrive in this business understand that it's a lot of work and a lot of time invested into making this work for the long run.

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