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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.
Bee-related services in the United States are not limited only to beekeeping. A large sector is devoted to bee removal , especially in the case of Swarming (honey bee) . This is especially common in the springtime , usually within a two- or three-week period depending on the locale, but occasional swarms can happen throughout the producing season.
Moses Quinby (April 15 or 16, 1810 – May 26, 1875) was an American beekeeper from the State of New York.He is remembered as the father of practical beekeeping and the father of commercial beekeeping in America.
The European honey bee may have originated from eastern Africa. This bee is pictured in Tanzania. A. mellifera, the most common domesticated [22] species, was first domesticated before 2600 BC [23] and was the third insect to have its genome mapped. It seems to have originated in eastern tropical Africa and spread from there to Europe and ...
The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bees worldwide. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The genus name Apis is Latin for 'bee', and mellifera is the Latin for 'honey-bearing' or 'honey-carrying', referring to the species' production of honey.
Census data shows that the number of bee colony operations rose much faster than honey production—and is up 160% since 2007. Pollination—not honey—is why the U.S. needs more bees
The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee (AHB) and colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis).
The text brought into the public consciousness that a bee colony is presided over by a queen bee (noticed by Luis Mendez de Torres in 1586, and later conclusively proven by Jan Swammerdam). Butler also provided information on the keeping and forming of skeps , as well as his own personal enjoinders on the most effective beekeeping techniques.