Beekeeping

Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primarily floral nectar) or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids. This refinement takes place both within individual bees, through regurgitation and enzymatic activity, and during storage in the hive, through water evaporation that concentrates the honey's sugars until it is thick and viscous.

species of insect

genus of insects

thumb|Beekeeper at the College of DuPage, Illinois Beekeeping (or apiculture, from ) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives. Honey bees in the genus Apis are the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such as Melipona stingless bees are also kept. Beekeepers (or apiarists) keep bees to collect honey and other products of the hive: beeswax, propolis, bee pollen, and royal jelly. Other sources of beekeeping income include pollination of crops, raising queens, and production of package bees for sale. Bee hives are kept in an apiary or "bee yard".

chemical compound

A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal prismatic cells built from beeswax by honey bees in their nests to contain their brood (eggs, larvae, and pupae) and stores of honey and pollen.

thumb|Propolis, produced by the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) thumb|200px|Two bars from a top bar hive that the bees have glued together using propolis. Separating the bars will take some effort as the propolis has hardened. thumb|200px|Propolis on the upper bar

secretion from the glands in the hypopharynx of nurse bees

species of plant

male bee, wasp or hornet

dominant reproductive female bee in a colony

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Aristaeus (; ) was the mythological culture hero credited with the discovery of many rural useful arts and handicrafts, including beekeeping. He was the son of the huntress Cyrene and Apollo.

fermented pollen

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International observance (May 20)

Apitoxin or bee venom is the venom produced by the honey bee. It is a cytotoxic and hemotoxic bitter colorless liquid containing proteins, which may produce local inflammation. It may have similarities to sea nettle toxin.

species of arthropods

thumb|upright|A beekeeper holding a brood frame, in Lower Saxony, Germany thumb|right|A commercial beekeeper working in an apiary A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees, a profession known as beekeeping. The term beekeeper refers to a person who keeps honey bees in beehives, boxes, or other receptacles. The beekeeper does not control the creatures. The beekeeper owns the hives or boxes and associated equipment. The bees are free to forage or leave (swarm) as they desire. Bees usually return to the beekeeper's hive as it presents a clean, dark, sheltered home.

thumb|220px|An apiary in Warsaw, [[Poland.]] An apiary (also known as a bee yard) is a location where beehives of honey bees are kept. Apiaries come in many sizes and can be rural or urban depending on the honey production operation.

female bee with blocked reproductive capacity

The extraction of honey from wild bees

thumb|A honeybee drinking water

a flowering plant that produces nectar as part of its strategy

Honeyland () is a 2019 Macedonian documentary film that was directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov. It portrays the life of Hatidže Muratova, a lonely beekeeper of wild bees who lives in the remote mountain village of Bekirlija and follows her lifestyle before and after neighbors move in nearby. The film was initially planned as a short film documenting the region surrounding the river Bregalnica but its area of focus changed when the directors met Hatidže. Honeyland received its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on 28 January and it has grossed $1,315,037.

thumb|250px|A syrphid fly (Eristalinus taeniops) pollinating a [[common hawkweed]] thumb|250px|A Andrena|mining bee (Andrena lonicerae) pollinating a [[honeysuckle (Lonicera gracilipes).]]

thumb |upright=2.0 |In the Hymenoptera, the [[sex-determination system involves haploid males and diploid females. System for honey bee shown.]]

Puncture wound caused by a bee's stinger

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Varroa is a genus of parasitic mesostigmatan mites associated with honey bees, originally placed into its own family, Varroidae, but later revised as a subfamily. The genus was named for Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman scholar and beekeeper. The condition of a honeybee colony being infested with Varroa mites is called varroosis (also, incorrectly, varroatosis).

structural element in a beehive

phobia of bees

species of microsporidian fungi

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Grayanotoxins are a group of closely related neurotoxins named after Leucothoe grayana, a plant native to Japan and named for 19th-century American botanist Asa Gray. Grayanotoxin I (grayanotoxane-3,5,6,10,14,16-hexol 14-acetate) is also known as andromedotoxin, acetylandromedol, rhodotoxin and asebotoxin. Grayanotoxins are produced by Rhododendron species and other plants in the family Ericaceae. Honey made from the nectar and so containing pollen of these plants also contains grayanotoxins and is commonly referred to as mad honey.

beekeeping term

artificial honeycomb structure for bees

class of chemical compounds

subspecies of honey bee

tel in northern Israel

orientation scent released by worker bees

thumb|right|250px|Adult specimen of the lesser wax moth (Achroia grisella) thumb|right|250px|Adult specimen of the Galleria mellonella|greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella) thumb|right|250px|G. mellonella larva

open-air museum in Lithuania

species of insect

ethnic group

subspecies of the western honey bee

food consisting of sweet honey still in its wax comb

chamber for the young of a beehive

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1763 taxonomic work by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

Slavic folk Christianity

link=https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Meliponario_individual.png|thumb|Meliponary with individual posts in the Pau Brasil village, in the Tupiniquim Indigenous Land, Aracruz, [[Espírito Santo]]Meliponiculture is the rational farming of stingless bees, or meliponines (Meliponini tribe), which is different from apiculture (the breeding of bees of the Apis mellifera species; western honey bee or European honey bee; Apini tribe). In meliponiculture, the hives can be organized in meliponary, places with suitable conditions of temperature, solar orientation, humidity, and food supply (flowers

Plant harvested by bees to produce honey

thumb|upright=1.5|Aphid giving birth by [[parthenogenesis, the live young growing from unfertilized eggs]]

practice of keeping bee colonies in urban areas

traditional European custom

Anglo-Saxon metrical charm