Many people know that keeping bees is among the oldest activities by humans.Because it has had many gradual changes over the years, people can see just how far it has come and how long it has been around.Although bees have been in existence for many years now, it was much easier to keep them years back as opposed to how it is today.One way we can understand just how important bees are is by looking at how long beekeeping has been practiced in many different parts of the world.According to many cave paintings and drawings, people in parts of Spain and Africa started collecting honey and keeping bees more than 15,000 years ago.One of the main reasons why people kept bees is, of course, to get honey as a source of food from them.They used honey to sweeten their drinks and other foods and make wine and other anti-bacterial agents.They also used bees to collect wax, which served as an ingredient for medicine, a binding agent and for making candles and mead.

Bees were mainly located in forests and other sheltered parts of the land.To make the process of collecting honey and wax easier, people decided to build their own beehives in order to have the bees there when they needed them.History dictates that Egypt was one of the places that made the initial beehives, which were made out of anything that could create dark compartments where the bees would work.Other civilizations to be referenced as having made their own beehives are the Romans and the Ancient Greeks.Creating beehives because even more useful because this meant that the hives were not destroyed every time honey was collected.

The first portable hive was made by an Italian who had migrated into the United States.He says he drew his inspiration from a book that was published in the early 1850’s and understood the distances that bees leave on the honeycombs when creating them.With that knowledge, he was able to create a hive that bees could work in comfortable and it later evolved into the modern hive used today.Another advantage is that the combs could be slid out of the hive for inspection or honey gathering then put right back without destroying them.This ensured that no more bee colonies or beehives would be destroyed when collecting honey.People have discovered over the years several ways to help the bees produce more honey as well as make a difference in other aspects such as pollination.