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A brief insight into bees and their colonies and products.

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Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are a subset of bees in the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests out of wax. Honey ...

Domain: Animals; Category: Insects

Bee bread pr bee pollen is a mass of pollen that has been packed by worker honeybees into granules with added honey or nectar.

Domain: Agriculture; Category: Agricultural produce

A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees. Honey bees produce commodities such as honey, beeswax, pollen, and royal jelly. Beekeepers also use honeybees to provide pollination services to fruit ...

Domain: Agriculture; Category: General agriculture

Beeswax is a natural wax produced in the bee hive of honey bees. Honey bees use the beeswax to build honeycomb cells in which their young are raised and honey and pollen are stored.

Domain: Agriculture; Category: Agricultural produce

An apiary (also known as a bee yard) is a place where beehives of honey bees are kept. Traditionally beekeepers (also known as apiarists) paid land rent in honey for the use of small parcels. Some ...

Domain: Agriculture; Category: General agriculture

The term brood is used to refer to the embryo or egg, the larva and the pupa stages in the life of holometabolous insects. The brood of honey bees develops within a bee hive. In man-made, removable ...

Domain: Agriculture; Category: General agriculture

Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or European honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of ...

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