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Beekeeping and its origins: candle production.

The origins of beekeeping date back thousands of years. Aboriginal cultures already carried out beekeeping activities to satisfy various uses, mainly for consumption and medicine. Although, its utilities are numerous. One of the uses of beeswax is to use it for the production of candles and candles. Without going any further, according to some experts, beekeeping began as a technique to produce them. What was the origin of the production of candles? Practiced since ancient times, beekeeping became an important

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Beekeeping and its types

What is beekeeping? The term beekeeping is used to refer to the activity of raising and caring for bees, in order to obtain honey, and other products such as wax or royal jelly. Beekeeping has been very present throughout the history of mankind. There are traces of honey, found in a vessel in a Neolithic site in Anatolia (Turkey), which is 9,000 years old. In remote times, beekeeping activity was based on hunting, in spring, one or several swarms of

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What is beekeeping?

Honey cannot be obtained without impeccable beekeeping, and this requires certain processes to be followed, which we explain below. Beekeeping is used to extract all kinds of products from the work of the bees, in addition to honey. Production and care in beekeeping must be accompanied by great precision and care in every single task.   Beekeeping process But beekeeping practices follow a specific order per year and are all necessary for a successful end result.  Worker bees produce honey, royal

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