Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee by Hattie Ellis

Author:Hattie Ellis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Bee culture, Life Sciences, Animals and civilization, Animals, Nature, Science, Entomology, Insects & Spiders, General, Honey, Bees, Zoology, Human-animal relationships, Honeybee, History
ISBN: 9781400054060
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2006-04-25T17:25:37+00:00

How to track down wild honeybees in eighteenth-century America.

On the other hand, Patrick Campbell, in his Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America in the years 1791 and 1792, recommends putting a flat stone with some wax on it over a fire. Close by the wax, put some more honey and vermilion pigment. The bee is drawn to the stone by the smell of beeswax, goes to the honey, and is marked by the red. If you watch in which direction it flies off and time its return, it is possible to work out both the direction and distance of the honey tree.

To assist in their honey-hunting, people began to make bee boxes, with one compartment filled with comb to attract the bee, a little door to trap it, and another to release it, in order to see in which direction it flew.

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