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SUBJECT: AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
CLASS: SS 3
TOPIC: APICULTURE
CONTENT:
Apiculture comes from two Latin words, apis meaning bees and cultura meaning cultivation. From this apiculture is the cultivation of bees. This definition however lacks substance as bees are animals not plants that cannot be cultivated but rear. Hence, apiculture can be better define as the art of rearing, breeding and managing honey bee colony in artificial hives for economic gains through the production of honey and other bee products for man’s use. For bees to produce honey, they feed majorly on nectar and pollen
IMPORTANCE OF APICULTURE
TYPES AND METHODS OF KEEPING BEES
TYPES OF BEES: There are many different species of bees most of which are solitary (Apis cerana) while others are social. Social bees live together in colonies and the best known is the honey bees (Apis mellifera).
The major types are Indigenous and exotic bees.
On a wider scale and from recent research findings there are about 25,000 known species of bees world-wide. These are divided into 4,000 generally belonging to 9 families. Bees are classified into the following families
METHOD OF KEEPING BEES
There are two methods by which bees can be kept or raised. These are traditional and modern bee keeping
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