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ANIMALS OTHER THAN MAN IN REALTION TO BEESLong before man's existence mammals, birds, insects and many other animals exploited honey-storing bees or their nests. (Right) Engraving in a Spanish book of emblems, showing a European brown bear drowning bees before taking their combs.
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(Left) Mediaeval German woodcut showing honey bee enemies from a 1502 edition of Virgil's works. | |
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| Woodcut showing woodpecker at a tree beekeeper's door and a brown bear below. | Anti-bear devices used by tree beekeepers. | |
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MAN'S EARLY INTERACTION WITH BEES AND HONEY |
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Beekeepers at work, probably in Germany. (Krimitz, 1774) At one time in Europe and America it was a common practice to mark the ownership of a tree hive by placing your initials on that tree. |
Honey hunting by man, probably as old as man himself, continued throughout the Mesolithic period when food was still obtained by hunting and gathering. This Mesolithic rock painting shows honey collection in Spain. |
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| Bee hunter's box used by Allen Latman in Massachusetts in 1915. Some bee hunters still practice the art today. | Rock painter of a honey hunter near the Toghwana Dam in Rhodesia. Note the use of smoke by the bee hunter. | |
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| Sometimes the tree housing the colony was cut down and the hive section brought home to be maintained. | Newly discovered early honey bee fossil from Germany. | |
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