Defination of bee keeping

The bee is the name given to the activity, technique and art of beekeeping in order to take advantage of these products are . Remarkably, the most important product that is achieved through the practice of this activity is the honey.
Honey is a type of very sweet fluid that bees are capable of producing from different situations, such as: possessing nectar flowers, plant secretions and excretions resulting from insects. Then the bees collect each of these mentioned elements and then combined with an enzyme called invertase available in their saliva, thereupon, store the result in the combs where they mature and are transformed into the famous honey beings many humans like to eat in different variants.


Also, since honey is plausible produce a huge variety of products that are not reduced only food, so honey is used to produce a significant amount of cosmetics such as facial creams, shampoos and hair conditioners , among others.
Meanwhile, the beekeeper, is the formal name given to one individual who practices beekeeping . Especially works during spring and summer doing activities that have to do with controlling the population of bees and honey extraction, meanwhile, in the winter, considered the season in which the task is adjourned, deal the preparation of the wood material which should be ready when the next season starts to house the families of bees; also will deal with controlling the state of health of bees, ie if there are latent diseases or pests that can cause complications in the next job.
The hive is the main material with which he works beekeeping and beekeepers, as it is the home in which the bee colony lies, though, there are other very necessary utensils such as: smoker, tweezers, beekeeping suit elements for extracting honey trap Cazapolen, among others.
The origins of beekeeping is really far back in time, about seven or eight thousand years ago. For many centuries, mostly to the discovery of America when sugar cane and beets, honey spread, was the only substance available to sweeten foods so that the work of the beekeeper enjoyed great respect and prestige in almost everyone.

Bee keeping

The knowledge of the biology of the bee is the key to the success of beekeeping. A colony of bees has three types of bees: two female castes (one queen and many workers), and a male bee called "drone". The queens are specialized females lay eggs to populate the colony and produce chemicals unifying to maintain a cohesive unit between the queen and workers in order to ensure survival. Often the queens live two years, but are more productive in its first year. The workers are females lacking developed reproductive organs. The workers build and maintain wax combs, feed and raise young bees after the queen lays eggs and guard the hive and queen. The older workers leave the hive and visit flowers to collect nectar and pollen resources to the diet of bees. This nectar is ripened by workers and become honey (which is used as an energy source). Pollen protein is used as necessary for the growth and development of the colony. The knowledge of the biology of the bee is the key to the success of beekeeping.