The document provides an introduction to beekeeping. It begins with the author's background in starting beekeeping as a hobby in their backyard 16 years ago after being impressed by the superior taste of honey. The definition of beekeeping is then given as the maintenance of honeybee colonies by humans, typically in hives, in order to collect honey and other hive products to sell or use to pollinate crops. A brief history of beekeeping notes that humans have been keeping bees for 13,000 years and that modern techniques like Langstroth's movable frame hives in the 1850s increased efficiency. The document concludes with an overview of common beekeeping activities like preventing swarming, migratory beekeeping, honey harvesting, pollination

1. Beekeeping
An Introduction

2. 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

3. Warning
 Beekeeping
can be
dangerous
 Bees are
everywhere
 In old days
everyone had
their own
hives

4. 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”

5. 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

6. Modern moveable hives

7. What beekeepers do
 Stop swarming
 inside a
swarmin
g
beehive

8. What beekeepers do
 Migratory beekeeping

9. What beekeepers do
 Harvesting honey
 Honey
 Pollination
 Export live
bees
 Raise queens
 Raise nucs

10. What beekeepers do
 Stop swarming
 inside a
swarmin
g
beehive