Question

Care and management of bees is called

• A. Pisciculture
• B. Apiculture
• C. Sericulture
• D. Apiary

Answer 1

The correct option is B

Apiculture

The correct option is B:

Explanation of the correct option :

1. Rearing honeybees for obtaining honey and wax is called apiculture.
2. The artificial beehives where honeybees are cultured and bred to get honey and wax, are called apiaries.
3. An apiary includes 40-50 million bees in one hive.
4. One beehive contains one functional female which lays eggs, i.e, the queen, some males called drones and the rest worker bees that are sterile females.

Explanation of the incorrect option:

Option A:

1. Pisciculture is the production and management of fish.
2. It is also called fish farming.
3. It includes farming of both marine and freshwater animals.
4. The rearing and breeding of food fishes like prawns, lobsters, crabs, clams, mussels, etc. in ponds, lakes, rivers, estuaries and lagoons is called aquaculture.
5. Rearing and breeding of food fishes in marine water or fish farming in marine water is called mariculture.

Option C:

1. The rearing, breeding and management of silkworms for the production of silk is known as sericulture or silk farming..
2. The larvae or caterpillars of this insect, called silkworms, feed on mulberry leaves.
3. When fully grown, larvae secrete cocoons around them and change into pupae (sing. pupa).
4. The cocoons are immersed in boiling water to kill pupae living inside.
5. We obtain silk from the dead cocoons by reeling.
6. Four varieties of silk-mulberry, tassar, mugga and eri are produced in India.

Option D:

1. The artificial beehives where honeybees are cultured and bred to get honey and wax, are called apiaries.
2. An apiary includes 40-50 million bees in one hive.
3. One beehive contains one functional female which lays eggs, i.e, the queen, some males called drones and the rest worker bees that are sterile females.

Final answer: Care and management of bees is called apiculture.