Beekeeping an introduction

BeekeepingAn Introduction

A bit about me Started in

Nedlands backyard 16 years ago

Taste of honey was so superior

Hobby turned into obsession

Apprenticed myself out

150 hives and Elixir Honey

WarningBeekeeping can be dangerousBees are everywhere

In old days everyone had their own hives

Beekeeping - definition “Beekeeping, also called

apiculture, is the maintenance of honeybee colonies, commonly in hives, by humans. A beekeeper (or apiarist) keeps bees in order to collect honey and other products of the hive (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”

History of beekeeping Fossils found 100 million years old

Humans keeping bees for 13,000 years

Honey as a medicine Honey as a drink By 1500 we’d stopped

killing the bees In 1700’s studied bees 1822 bees bought to

Australia 1850 Langstroth’s

modern moveable frame

Modern moveable hives

What beekeepers do

Stop swarming

inside a

swarming

beehive

What beekeepers do

Migratory beekeeping

What beekeepers do

Harvesting honey

Honey Pollination Export live

bees Raise

queens Raise nucs

What beekeepers do

Stop swarming

inside a

swarming

beehive