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If the thought of keeping bees and collecting their honey and other products for your individual or commercial use appeals to you, then this guide is just what you are interested in. Keeping bee colonies in hives by humans is recognized as apiculture. Api is a Latin phrase this means bee. You, the beekeeper or the apiarist, can keep bees and accumulate their honey, beeswax, pollen, Royal Jelly, and propolis. The place where you keep your bees is called a bee lawn or apiary. It seems that humans have been collecting honey from crazy bees since 15,000 years ago. In North Africa, humans began to keep bees in pottery vessels about 9,000 years ago. People began to utilize simple hives to domesticate bees in Egypt about 4,500 years ago. Smoke was used and the honey was collected in jars, and in truth some of these jars were found in the tombs of pharaohs, such as Tutankhamun. In the 18th hundred years, Europeans figured out what sort of moveable comb hive could be made so the honey could be gathered without killing the entire bee colony. But how will you get started doing keeping bees? How and which hives should you buy? How do you install these hives, and what items should you maintain bees? Discover the answers to all these questions in this simple guide.