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Urban beekeeping with hay bales strapped to them on 3 sides to winterize and protect from the wind knocking it over [1] 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.
Fear of bees also results in legal restrictions on beekeeping, especially in urban areas. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Beekeepers are often forced to reconcile a fear of being stung. They may consider it to be a routine part of the job, derive self-confidence from the nature of their work, or consider it a form of affective labor . [ 24 ]
Related to natural beekeeping, urban beekeeping is an attempt to revert to a less-industrialized way of obtaining honey by using small-scale colonies that pollinate urban gardens. Some have found city bees are healthier than rural bees because there are fewer pesticides and greater biodiversity in urban gardens. [ 82 ]
In the case of urban beekeeping, hives are often located on high ground, which requires less space than hives located at lesser altitudes. [5] To direct the bees' path of flight in populous urban areas, beekeepers often construct tall fences which force the bees to fly higher and widen their search for food [ 5 ] or place the hives in an ...
It focuses on the functional use of horticulture so as to maintain and improve the surrounding urban area. [1] [2] Urban horticulture has seen an increase in attention with the global trend of urbanization and works to study the harvest, aesthetic, architectural, recreational and psychological purposes and effects of plants in urban environments.
Short title: Do ambient urban odors evoke basic emotions? Image title: Fragrances, such as plant odors, have been shown to evoke autonomic response patterns associated with Ekman’s (Ekman et al., 1983) basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, fear, sadness, and disgust.
Some southern U.S. beekeepers keep bees primarily to raise queens and package bees for sale. Northern beekeepers can buy early spring queens and 3- or 4-pound packages of live worker bees from the South to replenish hives that die out during the winter, although this is becoming less practical due to the spread of the Africanized bee.
Africanized bee – a hybrid bee with characteristics unsuitable for beekeeping [1] Apiary – a yard where beehives are kept; Apicology – ecology of bees; Apiology – scientific study of bees; Apitherapy – a branch of alternative medicine that uses honey bee products including honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom.