Undiscovered Secrets of World Best Honey Honey, the natural food of the honeybee is also described as man's sweetest food. Created by honeybee, which is sometimes called "the golden insect". The honeybee exist everywhere on the continent where man lives, from the equatorial evergreen rainforest to the desert oasis, although they are more numerous in the drier savannah than in the wetter forest areas. They all produce honey, the nutritious natural food good for both man and animals. Honey is collected from tree branches, hollows and crevices in several regions of the continent. The practice of keeping bees in beehives as practiced in Egypt, Kenya and Tanzania is not well known parts of Africa. Honey is harvested by humans using fire or live torches which burn the insects to death which is barbaric. They waits patiently until the warmest time of the year, when the insect has the largest quantity of the sweet honey in stock, then takes his machete, axe and mallet, hacks down the tree where the hive is built and sets fire to most of the bees to kill them or weaken them before the combs are removed, then takes away all combs. A colony of bees treated this way is overwhelmed, and the only thing left for the few still alive to do is to seek a new abode elsewhere. This kind of honey hunting is like the farmer who kills his cow in order to milk it. The honey-tapper sometimes melts down both honey and beeswax into a container. The next morning the honey has cooled down, and the wax has hardened on top of it. The wax is then removed and thrown away. Thus the poor man loses additional income and his government also loses foreign exchange. This practice is going on today. The history of honey-hunting involving the live torch dates back several thousand years. Dr. Eva Crane's Book of Honey (1980) contains the picture of a rock painting, near the Toghwana Dam, Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe, of a honey-hunter using fire. But 20th-century man is too mature to do the same. Modern man have approach beekeeping scientifically, using new methods of hunting or harvesting honey described in this manual. Why bee honey is beneficial business? Honey is money and delicious and nutritious. By keeping bees, we can obtain large quantities of honey and raw beeswax for home consumption and for export. Some Other benefits of beekeeping are as follows: 1. This apiculture is cheap. It does not involve mass feeding of bees, because the insects can provide their own food all year round, and there is no over-wintering bee management.
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