List of topics in beekeeping

This is a list of topics concerning beekeeping and honey bees.

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Honey bee types and characteristics (edit)
Queen bees
Worker and drone bees
Worker bee | Laying worker bee | Drone
Lifecycle
Beehive | Honey bee life cycle | Brood Bee learning and communication | Swarming
Western honey bee subspecies and breeds
Buckfast bee | Carniolan honey bee | European dark bee | Italian bee Africanized bee | Apis mellifera scutellata
Cultivation
Beekeeping | Beeswax | Honey | Honey extraction Apiary | Beehive | Langstroth hive | Top-bar hive Apiology | Honey extractor
Lists
Topics in beekeeping | Honey bee races
Diseases of the honey bee

• Africanized bee - a hybrid bee with characteristics unsuitable for beekeeping
• Apiary - a yard where beehives are kept
• Apicology - ecology of bees
• Apiology - scientific study of bees
• Bee - a member of the order that includes ants and wasps
• Bee anatomy (mouth)
• Beekeeper - also called apiarist or apiculturist, a person who cares for bees
• Bee learning and communication
• Bee sting
• Bee venom therapy - also called apitherapy
• Beehive - a housing for cavity-dwelling bees that allows inspection and honey removal
• Beekeeping - bees are kept for their products (principally honey), and their utility in pollinating crops
• Bees and toxic chemicals
• Brood (honey bee) - the egg, larval, and pupal form of the bee and the comb in which they develop
• Buckfast hybrid bee - a productive bee suitable for damp and cloudy climes
• Carniolan honey bee - a gentle bee good for variable nectar flow
• Characteristics of common wasps and bees
• Deseret - the beehive and its symbolism to the Church of Later-Day Saints (Mormons)
• Colony Collapse Disorder - malady of unknown cause characterized by disappearance of bees from hive
• Drone bee - the male bee
• Diseases of the honey bee
• Italian bee - the most well known honey bee subspecies
• 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
• List of honey plants
• List of honey bee races
• Lithuanian Museum of Ancient Beekeeping
• Northern Nectar Sources for Honey Bees - common names and descriptions of northern latitude nectar plants
• Pesticide toxicity to bees
• Piping queen - queens will make audible sounds at certain times
• Pollinator decline - loss of bees and other pollinators is an environmental issue
• Stingless bees - Trigona and Melipona bees kept from ancient times in Central America and Australia
• Swarming - the means by which bee colonies propagate
• Queen bee - a single egg laying bee capable of producing workers, drones, and queens
• Top-bar hive - an alternative to the Langstroth box hive, with some advantages for casual beekeeping
• Virgin queen - a queen that has not yet bred with drones
• 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