Q.What happens to the drones after mating flight?

Apiculture, or bee-keeping, is the practice of maintaining honeybee hives to produce honey, an age-old cottage industry that has grown into an established income-generating activity at both small and commercial scales. Besides honey, which has high nutritive value and medicinal uses, bees also produce beeswax, used in cosmetics and polishes. Bee-keeping can be set up wherever there are enough bee pastures — wild shrubs, orchards or crops — and the commonly reared species in India is Apis indica. Successful bee-keeping requires knowing the habits of bees, choosing a good location, catching and hiving s …