Question

What is apiculture?

Answer 1

Hint: Apiculture is also called as beekeeping, where it is simply said like scientific rearing of bees, in apiculture, the care and management of bees are taken, in order to produce honey, wax, etc. Where bees are bred commercially in apiaries.

Complete answer:
Products obtained from bees:
Mostly bees are reared for there honey, apart from that, beeswax is also obtained by the rearing of bees.
Bees honey is widely consumed by humans as there food, and it has high nutritional value, and bees prepare this honey by collecting the nectar and other secretions of the flowers.
Beeswax also has a lot of uses, where it is also used in various industries like medical and cosmetics.
  Importance of apiculture.
In the case of Apiculture, the bees are bred in apiaries, and the products obtained from the bees are used commercially.
Honey produced from the bees has high nutrition value, and it is a great antioxidant.
The beeswax obtained from bees has a wide range of use in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.
And honeybees play a very important role in pollinating agents and increase the crop yields by pollination.
And recent research studies have shown that the venom of honey bees contains a mixture of proteins, where they can be used for prophylactic treatment of HIV.
Mainly in the bees colony, there are three types of bees, the range of bees in a single colony is from 10,000 to 60,000. Where all bees do not collect nectar.
There are Queen bees, working bees, and drones, the work of queen bees is to lay eggs, while drones are male bees, and their role is only fertilization, and most of the honey is made by the working bees only.

Note:
 In the apiculture, in the apiaries, or man-made beehives, the bees which are used are genus Apis, these are most honey-producing bees, and other variety of bees like, Melipona stingless bees are also kept in the colony, in the order wise to culture the products from those bees, and used for commercial purposes.