Beekeeping or agriculture from bee is the maintenance of honey bee colonies commonly in hives by humans. A beekeeper or apiarist keeps bees in order to collect honey and other products of the hive including beeswax propolis pollen and royal jelly to pollinate or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers. A location where bees are kept is called an apiary or bee yeard. There are more than 20000 species of wild bees. Many species are solitary and many others rear their young in burrows and small colonies like and bumblebees. Beekeeping or apiculture is concened with the practical management of the social species of honey bees which live in large colonies of up to 100000 individuals.
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