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The first step to making honey is extracting the nectar from the flower. The bee carries the nectar from the flower to the hive. While the nectar is being carried the bees start to mix the nectar with enzymes to make it more suitable for storage. Once the bee gets back to the hive the nectar is given to another bee, this process continues for a while. Until finally, the nectar is passed into a honeycomb. When the nectar first gets to the honeycomb, it is very watery. So the bees use their wings to dry it. The fished product is beeswax. From there the honeycombs are harvested and can be sold as a liquid or a solid.

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Honey is the sweet substance that is made by bees. It contains types of natural sugars, fructose, glucose, organic acids, minerals, vitamins, and sometimes plant pigments.

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The first thing beekeepers need to do is buy their bees. Usually beekeepers order the bees around January, and don't get them until April or May. One thing about ordering your bees is that you can choose many different types. Such as, already started hives, swarm, or packaged bees. Then you have to choose what kind of system you want to use, Langstroth or Top-bar hive. One of the things you must do before getting your bees is getting you protective gear and feeding supplies. The gear includes nets, long-sleeve jackets, and gloves.

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Honey can be used for many different things. The most common use is as a sweetener. Before sugar was made, honey was the primary sweetener. it can also keep food moist and fresh because of its high sugar content. Honey is also the bases for mead, an alcoholic drink. It is also used in some Buddhist rituals, and traditional Indian and Chinese medicines. Honey was also used to cure skin ailments in Greece.

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Honey can be prepared and sold in many different ways. The most common packaging is in a container as a liquid. To do this the honey is strained out of the honeycombs and packaged as a clear liquid. They honey that is yellow and opaque is actually honey that has been crystallized. Usually the liquid honey is made up of different honeycombs, and not just one. Another way honey can be prepared is cutting the honeycombs into square pieces. In this case the square is wrapped and sold individually.

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Beekeeping, or apiculture, is when people breed or sell bees to make honey and pollinate farms.

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When beekeepers breed bees it's for one of two reasons. Either to sell or create new species from older ones. When beekeepers sell bees the bees are shipped to somewhere else. For example, small colonies of bees, called nuclei, are shipped to southern states. The problem with shipping these bees is that it could lead to a bacteria called American Foul Brood. Which can kill the bees, so then there are less bees when they get to their destination. To help prevent this from occurring beekeepers have started feeding the bees a certain chemical to help reduce bee loss.

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There is more than one method of beekeeping. Most beekeepers use boxes to keep the bees in. This process is done by making a wooden box with a bottom board and cover, to go on top. It has several frames in it which have honey combs or plastic used to mimic honey combs. (The plastic has hexagon indents to but the nectar in to make honey) A more basic method would be using holes in trees and putting doors on them to get the honeycombs without letting bees out. But the most basic way is letting the bees make the hives themselves and picking the honeycombs off like fruit. This is what people did before the technology we have today.

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The history of beekeeping goes back as far as 6000 B.C.. People today have found a cave painting that describes how people bee kept back then. Which was picking the honeycombs off of trees like fruit.

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The book "Stung" makes many references to beekeeping. Such as how the people inside the wall are protected, because they are making an effort to help the population. Which is what beekeepers do, help the bees populate and pollinate so that nothing goes extinct. In "Stung" everything is dead because the bees are gone, so everyone is dying. Beekeepers try to prevent that from happening by breeding and shipping them across the globe

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Honey was discovered back in 1702. Honey was seen on some Egyptian hieroglyphics. Honeybees originated in Africa, so that is where honey was made until we started trading Africa more. The reason why the honey industry was blooming at that time was because sugar was not going to be invented until the 18th century. In 1866 Franz von Hruschka invented the first device to extract honey from the honeycombs.

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Pollination is the transfer of pollen grains from the stamen of one plant to the stigma of another plant. Bees are one of the most common pollinators. The bees use the stiff hairs on their legs to carry the pollen. Pollination must be done within species, which is why bees don't switch from plant to plant. Most plants give back nectar. Which is why bees don't know they are actually pollination the plants. They just pick up nectar from each of the plants to make honey.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JU9P59_yY