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2. Apiculture (Beekeeping)
In Latin: apis means "bee")
So it is the maintenance of honey bee colonies,
commonly in hives, by humans.
A beekeeper (or apiarist) keeps bees Inorder to collect
their honey and other products that hive produces
(including beeswax, propolis, pollen, and royal jelly),
To pollinate crops, or to produce bees for sale to other
beekeepers

3. Honey bee classification
 Phylum Arthropoda
 Class Insecta
 Order Hymenoptera
 Family Apidae
 Genus Apis

4. History Of Apiculture
 Apiculture began about 9,000 years ago in North
Africa
 Domestication of bees is shown in Egyptian art
from around 4,500 years ago
 Simple hives and smoke were used.
 Honey was stored in jars.

5. History Of Apiculture
 At some point humans began to attempt to
maintain colonies of wild bees in artificial hives in
Middle East beginning about 7000 BC
 ldest archaeological finds directly relating to
beekeeping have been discovered at Rehov,
a Bronze and Iron Age archaeological site in
the Jordan Valley, Israel

6. Cast of Honey bees
Queen
Worker
Drone
Queen - Drone
Mate with drone - Only Mate with Queen
produce egg -
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Worker
Care and feed young one Produce Honey,royal jelly
Protect hive Get food from out side
Make hives

7. Species
Apis
indica
Apis
mellifera
Apis
florea
Apis
dorsata

9. Apis Dorsata F
.
Commonly called ‘Rock bee’.
Largest bee of about 20-30mm,
called the GIANT HONEY
BEE.
A single comb makes upto 60
pounds of honey
They are highly aggressive and
hence cannot be domesticated
for beekeeping.

10. Apis indica F.
Commonly called as Indian bee or
Asian bee.
Prefer to live in dark places by making
parallel combs of one foot in
protected areas.
This Is very gentle species
so can bedomesticated
easily.
Production of honey is 6 to 7 pounds
per comb, which is much less than the
first one.

11. Called as the little bee.
Smaller than the both species.
They are not gregarious i.e
social. So make a
single
comb.
Due to docile nature i.e
obedient, and rare stinging
habit, their nest can be easily
removed.
Apis florea F.

12. Apis mellifera F:
It is called as European bee.
Although bee produces less honey
but it is the BEST SPECIES for
COMMERCIAL point of view.
Its ITALIAN variety is reared
everywhere in Europe and
America in artificial hives.

13. Products of bee keeping
 HONEY:
 have very high nutritionalvalue.
 BEE WAX:
 Bee wax is the natural by-product secreted by the wax
glands of worker bee to construct the combs of bee hive.
 It is widely used in cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.
BEE VENOM:
 Bee venom is a colourless, acidic liquid.
 Bee venom is used for treating rheumatoid arthritis, nerve
pain, multiple sclerosis.
 ROYAL JELLY:
 Digested honey,
 Pollen,
 Mixed with a glandular secretion

14. Diseases and Pests
Diseases:-
Acarine
Varoasis
American foulbrood
Nosema
Pests:-
Wasps
Ants
Wax Moth
birds
Wasp feeding on bee
Comb infested by
wax moth
Acarapis woodi Nosema
disease
American
foulbrood

15. Economic importance of honey
Food value:
Used in the formation of candles cakes and
bread.

16. Medicinal value:
It is laxative, antiseptic and sedative and
used in Ayurvedic and Unani medicinal
systems.
Act as a curative of ulcers on tongue and
alimentary canal.
Typhoid germs are killed by it.
Other uses:
It is used as preservative, in brewing industry,
in poultry and fishing industries. It is used to
stimulate the growth of plants, the bacterial
culture, in insect diet.