Api RR. Abejas Ensenada

Nuestra cosecha de dos temporadas diferentes la obscura pertenece a cosecha invernal con un sabor fuerte a madera mas añejo, la clara a cosecha de verano con sabor frutal, producto orgánico con 19% de humedad.

It is difficult to appreciate smoking bees without a modern smoker unless one has ever done it, or rather, endured it. Smudge pots hung on the windward side of the hive or smoldering corncobs powered by puffs of human breaths were early attempts to calm bees with smoke. Often the beekeeper received more smoke than the bees.

The pivotal year in smoker evolution occurred in 1873, when Moses Quinby of St.Johnsville, New York constructed a bellows smoker. His smoker began to resemble the modern form, though the funnel pointed straight up. His lightweight smoker could be operated with one hand, the funnel directing smoke right to where it was needed. Quinby began advertising the smoker in the American Bee Journal and Gleanings Bee Culture (now known as Bee Culture) in 1874.

Yet particularly among Quinby's earliest smokers (the left one), the fire went out prematurely. Quinby may have been correcting this flaw, but he died in the spring of 1875. Nevertheless,he chose not to patent his crucial invention, instead, he gave it freely to the beekeeping community.

Quinby's son-in-law, Lyman C. Root, of Mohawk, New York, modified the smoker, patented it in 1879, and sold a few versions of it for several years (shown on the right).

The Hive and the Honey Bee, pg.34

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