Question

Mention the economic value of Apis indica.

Answer 1

Hint: There is a diversity of insects on earth. They all have their different and specific works which contribute to nature and its products. Humans have exploited every insect and animal to their personal use. Likewise is the honey bee we commonly know.

Complete answer:
Apex indica is the Indian honey bee. The species commonly found in India. It is the subspecies of the Asiatic honey bee. It is the flying insect with genus Apis. They are known for making colonial nests from wax.
They produce and store their honey in these hives. They can be stingless or with a sting. They obtain their nutrition from the nectar of the flowers.
Pollen from anthers is the only natural source of protein. Nectar is collected by the worker bees.
There are various divisions in the honey bees. They can be drones, queen, worker bees. Drones are the haploid creatures. Queen is the female reproductive body while the workers are unfertilized ones.
The Queen is called the royal jelly.
Apiculture is the rearing of the honeybees.
Let us see the various economic values of honey bees.
1. It is used to obtain wax, honey.
2. They are used as pollinators to transfer the pollen from the anthers to the female reproductive parts.
3. They are useful to the farmers in agricultural practices.

Note: Bees have the primer organisms on the earth. Honey bees can survive for many long years. Bees feed honey to their young ones. Beekeepers use smoke to calm the bees while extracting honey from them. On being aggressive they can chase the population over 25% of a mile.