honey production
Hive's sweet labor
Honey production is the process by which bees make honey or humans harvest it.
The term covers both the natural activity—bees collecting nectar, processing it in the hive, and storing it in honeycomb—and the commercial enterprise of beekeeping for honey: The region's honey production has declined due to colony collapse disorder.
- apiaryHive-keeping grounds
- honeycombWax matrix of hexagons
- liquid goldHighly valued fluid substance
- pollinationFlower reproductive transfer
- nectarFloral sugar water
bee colony · flower nectar · beekeeping · extraction · beeswax · flora · drone · busy bees · apiculture · supers · propolis · worker bee · smoker · foraging · royal jelly · mead · hive · brood
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, farming
- food productionfarming, cheese making, crops, livestock, olive oil
- rural industriesdairy, ranching, farming, forestry, livestock breeding
- beekeepingbeekeeping, apiculture, beehive, hive, apiary
- beeshoneybee, bumblebee, honeybees, queen bee, worker bee
- Mount EtnaMount Etna, crater, craters, eruptions, lava flows