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Who was the first to raise honey bees?

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100 million years ago. The earliest fossil evidence of bees found to date is preserved in a piece of amber found in a mine in northern Burma. It is believed to date back as far as 100 million years to the time when bees and wasps split into two different lineages. read more

The practice of merely collecting honey from wild bee hives to raising honey bees has been depicted in much earlier drawings however. Skeps and other beekeeping hives, woven mud and dung baskets, were thought to have first been developed in this region as well. read more

Well, I'll try my best to help you start dealing with both those factors. The books and the bees will teach you the rest about how to raise honeybees. The Biology of Bees. Honeybees live in complex communities that may contain as many as 100,000 members. The vast majority of these are the unfertile female bees known as workers. And do they work. read more

So once your bee hive is already in place and you are confident that everything is in working order it's time to order your honey bees. An established Apiary is one of the places to order honey bees. Your order should be placed in winter, the average beekeeper orders their bees in January and February. read more

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