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Domestication of bees is shown in Egyptian art from around 4,500 years ago. [8] 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. In the 18th century, European understanding of the colonies and biology of bees allowed the construction of the movable comb hive ...
Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees. The best-known honey bee is the western honey bee, (Apis mellifera), which was domesticated for honey production and crop pollination. The only other domesticated bee is the eastern honey bee (Apis cerana), which occurs in South, Southeast, and East Asia.
The first honey bee subspecies imported were likely European dark bees. Later Italian bees, Carniolan honey bees and Caucasian bees were added. Western honey bees were also brought from the Primorsky Krai in Russia by Ukrainian settlers around the 1850s. These Russian honey bees that are similar to the Carniolan bee were imported into the U.S ...
The western honey bee is one of the few invertebrate animals to have been domesticated. Bees were likely first domesticated in ancient Egypt, where tomb paintings depict beekeeping, before 2600 BC. [44] Europeans brought bees to North America in 1622. [45] [46] Beekeepers have selected western honey bees for several desirable features: [45]
Honey is a natural product produced by bees and stored for their own use, but its sweetness has always appealed to humans. Before domestication of bees was even attempted, humans were raiding their nests for their honey. Smoke was often used to subdue the bees and such activities are depicted in rock paintings in Spain dated to 15,000 BC. [102]
Enlightenment philosophers took up the question of animals and their treatment, some arguing that they were sentient beings who deserved protection. [9] [10] [11] The first modern animal protection laws were passed in Ireland and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [12] 1800–1914
Some people thought that cellphone towers were interfering with the bees' ability to navigate; others thought that the bees were falling prey to the usual suspects, including the varroa mite and ...
Honey bees were domesticated from at least the Old Kingdom, providing both honey and wax. [11] In ancient Rome , all the livestock known in ancient Egypt were available. In addition, rabbits were domesticated for food by the first century BC.