{"id":272,"date":"2020-06-20T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T13:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviveabee.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2023-10-24T16:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:45:21","slug":"the-honeybee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviveabee.com\/the-honeybee\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need To Know About Our Friend The Honey Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The honey bee is responsible for huge swathes of our food production so it’s about time we learned a little bit about our furry black and yellow friends. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ll be adding to this post over time so if there’s anything you think I’ve missed let me know in a comment below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here if you’d prefer to watch this article in a video.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The honey bee is without a doubt the most important player in the insect world. Responsible for pollination globally there are currently 20,000 species of bee. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The honey bee makes up one of these 20,000 species of bee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bee has been credited for encouraging diversity in flower populations that we now see in our gardens and meadows today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With pollination normally relying on wind (which can be very unreliable) flowers took their opportunity and evolved to display brilliant colours and produce sweet nectar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This encouraged a form of a symbiotic relationship between flower and bee which carries on to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next relationship to slowly form was that of man and be. Slowly but surely early man began to understand the benefit bestowed by the bee’s sweet and sticky produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both delicious and rich in calories, honey would be a gold mine for our early ancestors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Egyptians are the first recorded civilization to farm bees, they used primitive baskets to trap swarms and harvest their honey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The problem was they could not develop a method to extract the honey without destroying the honey bee’s hive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to start educating your kids about bees? Check out our page full of interesting bee facts for children<\/a> with a PDF you can download and takeaway!<\/p>\n\n\n\nA Brief History Of The Honey Bee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Revolution Of Beekeeping <\/h3>\n\n\n\n