Writing & Research
Honeybee Histories
The history of honeybees and beekeeping is complex and varied. Join me on an exploration of all things honeybees from ancient Egypt to the modern world.
Latest Essays
- Some of the most important knowledge we have about beekeeping in the early medieval era comes from the laws that were made to protect and control beekeeping.
- Part 14 in a semi-regular series of essays examining the 1568, A Profitable Instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees, written by Thomas Hill.
- One of the earliest medieval descriptions of the Drone (male) honeybee can be found in Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae. It would be accepted as the true account for centuries.
