Herbicide: A substance that is toxic to plants and is used to destroy unwanted
vegetation.
Hive: The structure used by bees for a home.
Honey crop: The amount of honey produced per bee colony per season.
Insecticide: A substance used for killing insects.
Melliferous: Yielding or having to do with honey.
Miticide: A substance that kill mites.
Nectar flow: A time when nectar is plentiful and bees produce and store surplus
honey; also called honey flow.
Parasite: An organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by
deriving nutrients at the host’s expense.
Perennial crops: Crops developed to reduce inputs necessary to produce food by
greatly reducing the need to replant crops from year to year.
Pesticide: A substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to
cultivated plants or to animals.
Pheromones: Chemical substances secreted from bee glands and used as a means
of communication; honey bees secrete many different pheromones.
Pollination: The transfer of pollen from the anthers of a flower to the stigma of the
same flower or of another flower; pollination is a prerequisite for fertilization, and
fertilization allows the flower to develop seeds.
Pollinator: The biotic agent (vector) that moves pollen from the male anthers of a
flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization or “syngamy”
of the female gametes in the ovule of the flower by the male gametes from the
pollen grain.
Primary swarm: The first swarm to leave the parent colony, usually with the old
queen (see secondary swarm).
Propolis: Sap or resinous materials collected from trees or plants by bees and used
to strengthen the comb and to seal cracks; also called bee glue.
Queen: A female bee with a fully developed reproductive organ, and larger and
longer than a worker bee.
Riparian: Of, relating to, or situated on the banks of a river.
Robbing: Stealing of nectar or honey by bees from other colonies, which occurs
more often during a nectar dearth.
Super: A part of commercial or other managed beehive that is used to collect
surplus honey. Normally, it is placed over or above the brood chamber.
Surplus honey: Honey removed from the hive, which exceeds what needed by
bees for their own use.
Swarm: A large number of worker bees, drones, and usually the old queen leave
the parent colony to establish a new colony.
Swarming: The natural process of honey bee reproduction at colony level.
Worker bee: A female bee with undeveloped reproductive organ; the majority of
the honey bees in a colony are worker bees, and they do all the work in the colony
except laying fertile eggs.
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vegetation.
Hive: The structure used by bees for a home.
Honey crop: The amount of honey produced per bee colony per season.
Insecticide: A substance used for killing insects.
Melliferous: Yielding or having to do with honey.
Miticide: A substance that kill mites.
Nectar flow: A time when nectar is plentiful and bees produce and store surplus
honey; also called honey flow.
Parasite: An organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by
deriving nutrients at the host’s expense.
Perennial crops: Crops developed to reduce inputs necessary to produce food by
greatly reducing the need to replant crops from year to year.
Pesticide: A substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to
cultivated plants or to animals.
Pheromones: Chemical substances secreted from bee glands and used as a means
of communication; honey bees secrete many different pheromones.
Pollination: The transfer of pollen from the anthers of a flower to the stigma of the
same flower or of another flower; pollination is a prerequisite for fertilization, and
fertilization allows the flower to develop seeds.
Pollinator: The biotic agent (vector) that moves pollen from the male anthers of a
flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization or “syngamy”
of the female gametes in the ovule of the flower by the male gametes from the
pollen grain.
Primary swarm: The first swarm to leave the parent colony, usually with the old
queen (see secondary swarm).
Propolis: Sap or resinous materials collected from trees or plants by bees and used
to strengthen the comb and to seal cracks; also called bee glue.
Queen: A female bee with a fully developed reproductive organ, and larger and
longer than a worker bee.
Riparian: Of, relating to, or situated on the banks of a river.
Robbing: Stealing of nectar or honey by bees from other colonies, which occurs
more often during a nectar dearth.
Super: A part of commercial or other managed beehive that is used to collect
surplus honey. Normally, it is placed over or above the brood chamber.
Surplus honey: Honey removed from the hive, which exceeds what needed by
bees for their own use.
Swarm: A large number of worker bees, drones, and usually the old queen leave
the parent colony to establish a new colony.
Swarming: The natural process of honey bee reproduction at colony level.
Worker bee: A female bee with undeveloped reproductive organ; the majority of
the honey bees in a colony are worker bees, and they do all the work in the colony
except laying fertile eggs.
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