PLSC 311 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Honey Bee, Nectar, Ant Colony
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Scientific name of the honey bee= apis mellifera l. Authority = linnaeus = the person who advanced the nomenclature. Beekeeping: husbandry or management of the honey bee. Apiary: location where bee colonies are kept in hives. Is the provided equipment or structural housing to the bee colony. Consists of the queen bee, worker, and drones. Honey comb: the structure constructed by the bees from bee wax. One of the oldest agriculture pursuits: might have to do with it being a sweet product (associated with food) Can divide this history into 5 eras (time periods: pre- christian (roman) era. To get the honey and was considered dangerous: part of the world still gather honey like this earliest writings about bees come from about 2500 bc and found in egyptian tombs, egyptians practiced migratory beekeeping. They would use barges on the nile river to move colonies of bees: first name for lower egypt was bee land .
