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Beekeeping - Apiculture in ArkansasApiculture is the study of honey bees and the practice of maintaining or keeping bees in order to collect honey or wax, for the pollination of plants, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers. The industrious Western honey bee, Apis meliffera, is the Arkansas state insect. While honey production is an important component of apiculture industry, it is crop pollination that makes bees indispensable to our agriculture. Approximately one third of our diet results, either directly or indirectly, from insect pollination. Honey bees perform over 80 percent of this pollination work. Bees add an estimated $15 billion to the U.S. economy each year in increased crop yields.
For more information on honey bees or beekeeping contact the Apiculture Office:
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