Biology:Glossary of beekeeping

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Short description: List of definitions of terms and concepts used in beekeeping

This page is a glossary of beekeeping.

Main page: Biology:Beekeeping

A

  • Africanized bee – a hybrid bee with characteristics unsuitable for beekeeping[1]
  • Apiary – a yard where beehives are kept
  • Apicology – ecology of bees
  • Apiology – scientific study of bees
  • Apitherapy – a branch of alternative medicine that uses honey bee products including honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom.

B

  • Bee – a member of the order that includes ants and wasps
  • Bee anatomy (mouth)
  • Bee bread – the main source of food for most honey bees and their larvae
  • Beekeeper – also called apiarist or apiculturist, a person who cares for bees
  • Bee learning and communication
  • Bee sting
  • Bee venom therapy – also called apitherapy
  • Beehive – a housing for cavity-dwelling bees that allows inspection and honey removal
  • Beekeeping – bees are kept for their products (principally honey), and their utility in pollinating crops
  • Bees and toxic chemicals
  • Brood (honey bee) – the egg, larval, and pupal form of the bee and the comb in which they develop
  • Buckfast bee – a productive breed of bee suitable for damp and cloudy climes

C

  • Carniolan honey bee – a gentle bee good for variable nectar flow
  • Characteristics of common wasps and bees
  • Colony Collapse Disorder – malady of unknown cause characterized by disappearance of bees from hive

D

  • Deseret – the beehive and its symbolism to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)
  • Diseases of the honey bee
  • Drone bee – the male bee
  • Drone laying queen

H

  • Honey bee – all the species in the genus Apis
  • Honey bee life cycle – the physical stages in the development of a mature bee starting from the egg

I

  • Italian bee – the most well known honey bee subspecies

L

  • Laying worker bee – this worker will produce only drone bees
  • Langstroth hive – commonly seen in developed countries as stacks of white or muted colored boxes at the edges of fields and orchards[2]

N

  • Northern Nectar Sources for Honey Bees – common names and descriptions of northern latitude nectar plants

P

  • Pesticide toxicity to bees
  • Piping queen – queens will make audible sounds at certain times
  • Pollinator decline – loss of bees and other pollinators is an environmental issue

Q

  • Queen bee – a single egg laying bee capable of producing workers, drones, and queens

R

  • Honey bee race
  • Russian honey bee

S

  • Stingless bees – Trigona and Melipona bees kept from ancient times in Central America and Australia
  • Swarming – the means by which bee colonies propagate

T

  • Top-bar hive – an alternative to the Langstroth box hive, with some advantages for casual beekeeping

V

  • Virgin queen – a queen that has not yet bred with drones

W

  • Western honey bee – European honey bees
  • Worker bee – the many tasks performed by this class of bee during her short lifetime and her specialized single-use stinger

See also

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