Apiculture & the Honey Bee (Know about the species of honey bees, beekeeping, pollination, beehives, entomology, beekeepers, honey making)

With original diagrams

Bees visit flowers, collect nectar and convert it into a golden-yellow aromatic viscous fluid called honey, which is aptly called the “liquid gold of nature”.

Honeybee workers possess remarkable ability and stamina to collect nectar and pollen from flowers and convert it into honey and bee bread.

To make 500 grams of honey, bees have to extract nectar from more than 4 million flowers, for which they have to make about 50,000 trips of the foraging area of 5 km radius, which would come to roughly 5 times the circumference of earth.

Workers of a single bee colony collectively make approximately 2-3 million flower visits in a day!

Know extraordinary facts about honey bees. This book contains topics, including:

•The species of honey bees
•The biology of the bee
•Social structure of a bee hive
•Anatomical adaptations in bee castes
•Honey making by workers
•Honey bees as pollinators
•The language and communication of bees
•Honey bee predators
•Products of apiary
•Honey bee diseases, and
•Bee keeping in India

This book uses simple language to convey scientific facts. That makes it suitable for laymen, researchers and entomologists.

Begin your journey into the spectacular world of honey bees with this short, engaging book.