Question

Give the scientific name of the most common species of honey bee reared in India. Why is it advantageous to keep beehives in crop fields during flowering periods?

Answer 1

Hint: These species are the sub-species of Asiatic honeybee. Keeping a beehive in the crop field is much more related to pollination.

Complete answer:
The scientific name of the most common species of honey bee reared in India is “Apis Indica”. It belongs to the kingdom of animalia and phylum Arthropoda. It is similar to the European honeybee (Apis Mellifera).
These species are important pollinators for coconut farms. They usually build multiple combed nests. It is advantageous to keep beehive in crop field during flowering period In many ways. It increases the efficiency of pollination.
It is also beneficial from the point of view of increased crop yield and honey. Beekeepers keep the beehive in the crop fields because bees also act as a pollinating agent. When bees sit on the crop the pollen grains get stick to their bodies or they just suck the pollen grain and when they travel to the other flower the pollen grains that were their on the body of bees travels down the ovary duct and gets fused with ovaries. Which certainly leads to reproduction in this way bees perform a major role in pollination if beehives are kept in the crop field during the flowering season.

Note: Beehive is an enclosed densely packed group of hexagonal prismatic cells made of bees’ wax called a honeycomb. A beehive is a man-made structure.