Q.What is apiculture? How is it important in our lives?

Apiculture is the branch of economic zoology concerned with rearing honey bees for honey, beeswax and crop pollination.

Economic zoology includes several specialised branches of animal rearing, each named for the organism involved:

• Vermiculture — rearing of earthworms (e.g., for vermicompost).
• Sericulture — rearing of silkworms for silk production.
• Apiculture — rearing/management of honey bee colonies for honey, beeswax, royal jelly and, importantly, for pollination services to crops. …

Queen-bee larvae feed on royal jelly.

In a honeybee colony, a fertilised (diploid) egg can develop into a queen or a worker depending on diet. Larvae that are to become queens are fed exclusively on royal jelly, a protein-rich secretion of the hypopharyngeal glands of worker bees, throughout larval life; this diet triggers full development of the reproductive sys …

Apiculture is bee-keeping — maintaining honeybee colonies (apiaries) to harvest honey and wax, and it also benefits crop pollination.

Apiculture is the science and practice of rearing honeybees (commonly Apis mellifera or Apis cerana) in man-made hives (apiaries) to obtain honey, a nutritious natural sweetener rich in sugars, minerals and vitamins, as well as beeswax, used in cosmetics, polishes and pharmaceuticals. Bee-keeping also indirectly boosts crop yields because honeybees pollinate flowering crops while foraging for nectar. A good honey yield depends on the choice of bee species, the flowering plants (bee pastur …

Honey is made by the worker (sterile female) honeybees, which collect and convert nectar into honey.

In a honeybee colony the worker bees (sterile females) perform the tasks of foraging, collecting nectar and converting it into honey by enzymatic action, then storing it in the comb. The queen's role is reproduction (la …