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apicultural

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a·pi·cul·ture  (p-klchr)
n.
The raising and care of bees for commercial or agricultural purposes.

[Latin apis, bee + culture.]

api·cultur·al adj.
api·cultur·ist n.
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Adj.1.apicultural - relating to the care and breeding of beesapicultural - relating to the care and breeding of bees


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Another Section A entry with an apicultural moniker, 13-year-old Heathside Honey Bee, was in the money too, fetching pounds 6,500.
Honey is the most known apicultural product, it is a substance that the bees produce through a complicated process of elaboration, where they absorb the nectar and deposit it in their stomach, then go back to the beehive to deliver it, throwing up repeated times; this way ferments, acid and albumen are added to the nectar.
The Apiary Inspectors of America, in a report published in the July 2007 issue of the American Bee Journal, said, "The apicultural industry has seen a dramatic decline in the number of honey bee colonies managed in the United States since the introduction of the honey bee tracheal mite and the Varroa mite in the 1980s.
 
 
 
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