A NEW IMAGE OF BEEKEEPING

Beekeeping, especially in relation to knowledge about its underlying scientific principles, is at present passing through an exciting time. We are also witnessing important changes in attitude that are curiously dissimilar to the 1851 beekeeping revolution -- Langstroth's recognition and application of the bee space -- and that are in the main initiated outside the craft of beekeeping: by entomologists, chemists and botanists. Whether or not the prospects they open up will form part of the beekeeping of the future is, however, largely in the hands of beekeepers, and they will do well to learn all they can of what is happening.  

... the conception of beekeeping is becoming further and further removed from that which still lingers on in some laymen's minds -- an old gentleman pottering in his cottage garden, clad in vestments of straw hat and veil (and smock?), carrying out the mystic rites of his peculiar priesthood. Our progress from mystique to comprehension detracts from neither the interest nor the economic significance of our craft, but adds substantially to both.  

BEE WORLD Vol. 45 No. 3 AUTUMN 1964

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