List of definitions of terms and concepts used in beekeeping
This page is a glossary of beekeeping.
- 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.
- 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
- 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]
- Queen bee – a single egg laying bee capable of producing workers, drones, and queens
- Stingless bees – Trigona and Melipona bees kept from ancient times in Central America and Australia
- Swarming – the means by which bee colonies propagate
- Top-bar hive – an alternative to the Langstroth box hive, with some advantages for casual beekeeping
- 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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