Apiculture
Apiculture: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Bee Keeping, Species of Honey Bee, Social Organisation of Honey Bee, Old Indigenous Method of Apiculture, Modern Scientific Method of Apiculture, Appliances of Apiculture, and Precautions While Beekeeping.
Important Questions on Apiculture
The maintenance of hives of honeybees for the production of honey is called:

The honey collected by old indigenous method is not pure.

Rearing of bees is

The beekeeping chambers are kept in hot places, under the sun.

What is the rearing of honey bees is called?

'Royal jelly' is secreted from

Choose the correct pair

Which of the following appliance is not used in bee-keeping?

The scientific name of honey bee is

Glue prepared and used by the worker bees to seal the cracks in honey combs

What is the scientific name of the most common species of honey bee reared in India?

Statement : Queen bee performs 'Waggle dance' in a bee hive
Reason : Waggle dance' informs other bees about source of nectar.
Which of the following is true?

Glue prepared and used by the worker bees to seal the cracks in honey combs


Which among the following is a real product of honeybee?

Which one is correctly matched?

If a honey bee is conveying an information, by round dance then the distance of source will be about -

Primary and secondary product of apiculture are:

Which statement is correct-

A queen Honey Bee lays eggs of :
