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Urban beekeeping is the practice of keeping bee colonies (hives) in towns and cities. It is also referred to as hobby beekeeping or backyard beekeeping . Bees from city apiaries are said to be "healthier and more productive than their country cousins". [ 2 ]
Beekeeping (or apiculture) 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.
The Apiary Laboratory, more often referred to as the Apiary, is a research laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Originally built for the study of honey bees and apiculture , today it is primarily used to study native pollinator species and the chemicals and pathogens impacting their populations.
More recently, she has begun studying the role of resins, which bees collect and mix with wax to make propolis coatings on the inside of their hives, as an example of honey bee social immunity. [17] Her lab also studies the effect of the surrounding landscape on the health and nutrition of both honey bees and native bees.
About 70% of Australian honey comes from nectar from native plants. Demand for pollination services for almonds and other crops is growing. Bee-brokers co-ordinate bee-keepers to provide pollination services for such crops. The species most commonly used for beekeeping in Australia is the western honey bee (Apis mellifera). Most commercial ...
Mark Wahlberg and Rhea Durham's kids are home for Thanksgiving!. Durham, 46, shared a rare photo of herself, her actor husband, 53, and their four children — Ella, 21, Michael, 18, Brendan, 16 ...
The video is only 9 seconds long, but that's all you need to see the cute little wiggle Pankcake does out of pure excitement. As soon as she sees her cousins coming to play, she starts to wiggle ...
Urban environments and outlying areas have been found to exhibit unique local temperatures, precipitation, and other characteristic activity due to a variety of factors such as pollution and altered geochemical cycles. Some examples of the urban effects on climate are urban heat island, oasis effect, greenhouse gases, and acid rain.