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A brief insight into bees and their colonies and products.

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The term brood is used to refer to the embryo or egg, the larva and the pupa stages in the life of holometabolous insects. The brood of honey bees develops within a bee hive. In man-made, removable ...

Domain: Agriculture; Industrie/Domeniu: General agriculture

The term queen bee is typically used to refer to an adult, mated female that lives in a honey bee colony or hive; she is usually the mother of most, if not all, the bees in the hive. The queens are ...

Domain: Animals; Industrie/Domeniu: Insects

Drones are male honey bees. They develop from eggs that have not been fertilized, and they cannot sting, since the worker bee's stinger is a modified ovipositor (an egg laying organ).

Domain: Animals; Industrie/Domeniu: Insects

A worker bee is any female (eusocial) bee that lacks the full reproductive capacity of the colony's queen bee; under most circumstances, this is correlated to an increase in certain non-reproductive ...

Domain: Animals; Industrie/Domeniu: Insects

A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Natural beehives are naturally occurring structures occupied by honeybee colonies, ...

Domain: Agriculture; Industrie/Domeniu: Farm machinery & equipment

An apiary (also known as a bee yard) is a place where beehives of honey bees are kept. Traditionally beekeepers (also known as apiarists) paid land rent in honey for the use of small parcels. Some ...

Domain: Agriculture; Industrie/Domeniu: General agriculture

A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees. Honey bees produce commodities such as honey, beeswax, pollen, and royal jelly. Beekeepers also use honeybees to provide pollination services to fruit ...

Domain: Agriculture; Industrie/Domeniu: General agriculture

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