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Glossary of beekeeping

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This page is a glossary of beekeeping.

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  • 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.

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H

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  • Honey bee – all the species in the genus Apis
  • Honey bee life cycle – the physical stages in the development of a mature bee starting from the egg

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  • Italian bee – the most well known honey bee subspecies

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  • Laying worker bee – this worker will produce only drone bees
  • Langstroth hive – commonly seen in developed countries as stacks of white or muted colored boxes at the edges of fields and orchards[2]

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Q

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  • Queen bee – a single egg laying bee capable of producing workers, drones, and queens

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S

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  • Stingless bees – Trigona and Melipona bees kept from ancient times in Central America and Australia
  • Swarming – the means by which bee colonies propagate

T

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  • Top-bar hive – an alternative to the Langstroth box hive, with some advantages for casual beekeeping

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W

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  • Western honey bee – European honey bees
  • Worker bee – the many tasks performed by this class of bee during her short lifetime and her specialized single-use stinger

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References

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  1. ^ "Africanized Honey Bee". Center for Invasive Species Research. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  2. ^ "A Detailed Look at the Langstroth Beehive - PerfectBee". 5 December 2016.