What is apiculture? Mention the types of honey bees in a honey bee col

1.	What is apiculture? Mention the types of honey bees in a honey bee colony. Add a note on the economic importance of apiculture.
Answer» The practice of rearing honey bees for honey and wax is called apiculture. It is also called Bee keeping. There are three castes in honey bee colony. 1. Queen (fertile female) 2. Drones (fertile males) 3. Workers (sterile females) Economic importance Honey collected from honey combs is a good nourishing food, it is a sweet syrup contains sugars like levulose (41%), fructose (38%), glucose (31%), maltose, it contains vitamins like ascorbic acid (vitamin c), niacin (B₃), riboflavin (B₂), thiamine (B₁), and minerals (Fe, Cu, mn, mg, Na, k ca p) Honey is a good antiseptic, laxative expectorant, blood purifier and chief source of energy. Honey is used in the preparation of jellies, Jams, cakes, etc. Bees wax secreted from the abdominal wax glands is used in manufacture of polishes, candle, etc. Bee venom is used in the treatment of disease like rheumatoid arthritis Honey bees are best natural pollinators.

What is apiculture? Mention the types of honey bees in a honey bee colony. Add a note on the economic importance of apiculture.

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The practice of rearing honey bees for honey and wax is called apiculture. It is also called Bee keeping.

There are three castes in honey bee colony.

1. Queen (fertile female)

2. Drones (fertile males)

3. Workers (sterile females)

Economic importance

Honey collected from honey combs is a good nourishing food, it is a sweet syrup contains sugars like levulose (41%), fructose (38%), glucose (31%), maltose, it contains vitamins like ascorbic acid (vitamin c), niacin (B₃), riboflavin (B₂), thiamine (B₁), and minerals (Fe, Cu, mn, mg, Na, k ca p)
Honey is a good antiseptic, laxative expectorant, blood purifier and chief source of energy.
Honey is used in the preparation of jellies, Jams, cakes, etc.
Bees wax secreted from the abdominal wax glands is used in manufacture of polishes, candle, etc.
Bee venom is used in the treatment of disease like rheumatoid arthritis
Honey bees are best natural pollinators.