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Bees for Development is an international charity [1][2] working to alleviate poverty through beekeeping. [3] Beekeeping contributes to supporting sustainable livelihoods [4] in poor and remote communities; honey bees provide an essential ecosystem service. [5] Bees for Development currently runs projects in Uganda, Zanzibar, Ethiopia and ...
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] As pollinators, bees also provide environmental and economic benefits to cities.
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. Beekeepers (or apiarists) keep bees to collect honey and other products of the hive: beeswax, propolis, bee ...
Ministry of Power. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency is an agency of the Government of India, under the Ministry of Power, created in March 2002 under the provisions of the nation's 2001 Energy Conservation Act. [1] The agency's function is to encourage the efficient use of energy in India by developing programs to support it. [2]
Angelina Jolie deepens her partnership with Guerlain in support of their Bee School. On January 30th, she taught a bee conservation class at Ecole Henri Barbusse, in Clichy-sous-Bois.
John Harbison, originally from Pennsylvania, was a successful beekeeper on the US west coast in the 1860s, in an area now known as Harbison Canyon, California, and greatly expanded the market for honey throughout the country. By 1890, William L. Coggshall had become the biggest beekeeper in the world, with over 3,000 hives in 15 locations ...
Apis mellifica mellifica silvarum Goetze, 1964 (Unav.) 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. [5]
Binomial name. Apis cerana. Fabricius, 1793. Range of Apis cerana. Apis cerana, the eastern honey bee, Asiatic honey bee or Asian honey bee, is a species of honey bee native to South, Southeast and East Asia. This species is the sister species of Apis koschevnikovi and both are in the same subgenus as the western (European) honey bee, Apis ...