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Enemies of Bees – Honey bee plant production- No of enemies involved

Wax Moth a. Greater Wax Moth       Galleria mellonella Galleriidae : Lepidoptera Adults brown in colour. Female moth enters the hive during night and lays creamy white eggs in groups in the cracks and crevices of the hive and combs and in the gap between super and brood chamber.  Caterpillar is dirty white in colour. Egg, […]

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Apiculture- Different Bee Castes, Hiving of bees and Apiary Management – Development of Honey Bee plant – Study guide of Educational

Apiculture–          It deals with rearing and maintenance of honeybees for the production of honey on a commercial scale.  Different Bee Castes         Every honey bee colony comprises of a single queen, a few hundred drones and several thousand worker castes of honey bees. Queen is a fertile, functional female, worker is an unfertile female and the drone is […]

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Mulberry silkworm –races and their characters – Mulberry plantation studies

Voltinism is a term used in biology to indicate the number of broods or generations of an organism in a year. or Number of generations per year under natural environmental conditions. Based on voltinism, Bombyx mori is divided in to 3 types, namely   i) Univoltines, ii) Bivoltines  and iii. Multivoltines. i) UNIVOLTINE RACES:  They produce […]

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Sericulture – Mulberry cultivation- Mulberry Yield – Agricultural Study material

Mulberry cultivation Mulberry is a fast growing deciduous tree occurring in sub tropical and temperate climate.  Mulberry has characteristic long idioblast cells in the upper epidermis of leaves. Inflorescence is a catkin / spike with unisexual flowers. Hence it is a cross pollinated crop.  The important species of mulberry cultivated in India are , a) […]

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Insect Wings & Legs and their modifications – Free Online Studymaterial

The thorax consists of three segments viz., pro, meso and metathorax and each bear onepair of legs called fore, middle and hind legs respectively. Legs are the principal organ oflocomotion and they have undergone many modifications and have been adapted to wide rangeof functions. The generalized insect leg consists of six segments. 1. A basal […]

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Insects, Characteristics of insects, Dominance of Insects – Factors responsible for dominance – Agricultural Free Online Studymaterial

ENTOMOLOGY DEFINITION: Entomology is the scientific study of insects. The word ‘Entomology’ is derived from two Greek words ‘Entomon’ meaning insects and ‘logos’ meaning  study  It is a branch of zoology dealing with Origin & evolution of insects and their diversity & classification, body organisation and function, development, interaction with surroundings in which they live, […]