List of topics in beekeeping
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This is a list of topics concerning beekeeping and honey bees.
- Africanized bee - a hybrid bee with characteristics unsuitable for beekeeping
- Apiary - a yard where beehives are kept
- Apicology - ecology of bees
- Apiology - scientific study of bees
- Bee - a member of the order that includes ants and wasps
- Bee anatomy (mouth)
- Beekeeper - also called apiarist or apiculturist, a person who cares for bees
- Bee learning and communication
- Bee sting
- Bee venom therapy - also called apitherapy
- Beehive - a housing for cavity-dwelling bees that allows inspection and honey removal
- Beekeeping - bees are kept for their products (principally honey), and their utility in pollinating crops
- Bees and toxic chemicals
- Brood (honey bee) - the egg, larval, and pupal form of the bee and the comb in which they develop
- Buckfast hybrid bee - a productive bee suitable for damp and cloudy climes
- Carniolan honey bee - a gentle bee good for variable nectar flow
- Characteristics of common wasps and bees
- Colony Collapse Disorder - malady of unknown cause characterized by disappearance of bees from hive
- Deseret - the beehive and its symbolism to the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
- Diseases of the honey bee
- Drone bee - the male bee
- 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
- Italian bee - the most well known honey bee subspecies
- 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
- List of honey plants
- List of honey bee races
- Lithuanian Museum of Ancient Beekeeping
- Northern Nectar Sources for Honey Bees - common names and descriptions of northern latitude nectar plants
- Pesticide toxicity to bees
- Piping queen - queens will make audible sounds at certain times
- Pollinator decline - loss of bees and other pollinators is an environmental issue
- Stingless bees - Trigona and Melipona bees kept from ancient times in Central America and Australia
- Swarming - the means by which bee colonies propagate
- Queen bee - a single egg laying bee capable of producing workers, drones, and queens
- Top-bar hive - an alternative to the Langstroth box hive, with some advantages for casual beekeeping
- Virgin queen - a queen that has not yet bred with drones
- 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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