This chapter illustrates how after the Mexican Revolution in the 1920s, the Yucatan Peninsula became a prolific region for experimentation and development of modern apiculture in the tropics. To illustrate this aspect, I reconstruct the work of the first bee-experts that promoted the systematic relocation of the European honeybee or Apis Mellifera in the 1920s by designing what they called “tropical apiculture,” in the Yucatan Peninsula. By reconstructing the birth of the apiculturist figure in the countryside, this chapter shows how bee experts popularized this practice and installed apiaries, taught in communities the theory and practice of modern apiculture, and made the necessary adjustments to implement “modern hives” in the localities.

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