Principles and Practices of Apiculture

Contents: 1.  Benefits and peculiarities of bee keeping. 2.  History and development of honey bee in India. 3.  Distinguishing features of hive bees. 4. Wild bees and honey hunting. 5. Sex and caste determination in honey bees. 6. Reproduction in honey bees. 7. Social organization of honey bee colonies. 8. Communication in honey bees. 9. Foraging ecology of honey bees. 10. Frame hive bee keeping. 11. Beginning of bee keeping. 12. Principles of uniting, shifting, dividing, equalizing and Supering. 13. Causes and control of swarming. 14. Causes and control of honey bee absconding and robbing. 15. Colony management for honey production. 16. Colony management for crop pollination. 17. Migratory beekeeping. 18. Mass queen bee rearing techniques. 19. Management of bee enemies. 20. Bee diseases and their management. 21. Protection of bee colonies from pesticide. 22. Honey - types, composition, properties and uses. 23. Quality standard of honey and detection of adulteration. 24. Honey marketing – Potentials for export. 25. Production, properties of bees wax and it’s uses. 26. Properties and uses of bee pollen, venom propolis and royal jelly. 27. Value added products from beekeeping. 28. Beekeeping for improving the productivity of field crops. 29. Bee keeping for improving the production of horticulture crops. 30. Bees and trees. 31. Bee keeping –an ideal component of ifs and organic farming. 32. Bee keeping for rural development. 33. Meliponiculture. 34. Role of stingless bees for crop pollination.