• ANTHER: Noun
  The area in a plant where pollen is developed and contained.
  (Based on Greek anthos 'Flower'.)

• APIARIST:
  A beekeeper

• APIARY: Noun. Plural: Apiaries.
  A place where several bee colony dwell
  (Based on Latin apis 'bee'.)

• APICULTURE: noun.
  Beekeeping.
  (based on Latin apis 'bee'.)
  Apicultural: adjective.
  Apiculturist: noun

• BEE DANCE: Noun.
  A dance performed by worker bees to inform the colony of the location of food.

• BEEKEEPER: Noun.
  A person whose occupation is keeping bees.

• BEE KEEPING: Noun
  The occupation of keeping bees.

• BEEHIVE: Noun
  A place where bee colony dwells.

• BEESWAX: Noun.
  Secreted wax from the underside glands of the bee abdomen. Bees mold the wax to form honeycombs.

• COMB HONEY:
  Honey presented in its original form.

• CRYSTALLIZATION: Noun
  Honey is a supersaturated solution. Crystals will develop in honey when glucose crystallizes out of solution. Crystallization of honey is most rapid at 57 degree F.

• COLONY:
  A community of almost fifty to sixty thousand worker bees, usually containing one queen, with or without drones.
  (based on Latin 'colonia')

• DRONE: Noun
  A non-working male bee.

• EXTRACTED HONEY:
  Honey removed from the comb by a special machine called an extractor and sold in liquid or crystallized form.

• EXTRACTOR: Noun
  A machine that rotates honeycomb with great speed to remove honey.

• HIVE: Noun.
  A man made structure for bees.

• HONEY: Noun.
  The nectar and sweet deposits from plants is gathered, modified a stored in honeycombs by honey bees.

• HONEYBEE:
  An insect with three pair of legs, four wings, a stinger and a special stomach which holds nectar.

• HONEYCOMB: Noun
  A structure of hexagonal cells of wax, made by bees to store honey and eggs.

• HONEYSAC:
  The pouch on the body of a worker bee where nectar is stored. (here the sugar and nectar is broken down by a process called inversion into two simple sugars - fructose and glucose)

• NECTAR: Noun
  The sweet secretion from flowers of various plants.

• PISTIL: Noun
  The central portion of a flower containing the stigma, style and ovary.
  (Based on Latin pistillum 'pestle')

• POLLEN: Noun
  The male reproductive cells of flowers

• POLLINATION: Noun
  The fertilization of flowering plant. The transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of that or another from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of that or another flower.

• QUEEN: Noun
  A sexually developed female bee.

• STAMEN: Noun
  The male fertilizing organ of a flower where pollen producing anther are borne.

• SWARM: Noun
  The natural division of a bee colony.

• WORKERBEE: Noun
  A sexually underdeveloped female bee.

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