Question

Write a short note on how we breed and rear honeybees to get honey.

Answer 1

1. Apiculture is the rearing of honeybees for the production of honey and related products.
2. An apiary is a place where honeybees are raised in hives made by humans.
3. A beehive is made up of hexagonal cells that are used to rear young and store honey, beeswax, and royal jelly.
4. A hive can house up to 30,000 bees.
5. A hive contains three types of bees: a single queen, hundreds or thousands of female worker bees, and a few drones (males).
6. The queen is the only one who lays eggs.

Steps of Apiculture:

1. Swarms are collected from their current location.
2. Swarm is an old queen accompanied by a large number of workers flying to establish a new hive.
3. The swarm is transferred to the hive to help build the colony and produce honey.
4. When the honey is ready, the bees are usually driven away from the comb by smoking the hive.
5. The comb is then removed, and the honey is squeezed out through a large-meshed cloth.