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The Maya Practiced Beekeeping As Far Back As 3,000 Years Ago, And Some Of Their Bee Cultivation Tools Were Recently Discovered
However, after finding the lids, they realized the site was once an apiary, which is a location where bees are kept. More specifically, the Maya cultivated the Melipona beecheii, a species of ...
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Centuries-Old Maya Beekeeping Tools Unearthed in Mexico
But after discovering the lids, they concluded the site was once an apiary—specifically, a meliponary dedicated to cultivating Melipona beecheii, the Maya’s “sacred bee,” per Mexico News ...