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Beekeeping with a fancy Latin suit on, so it sounds like a science.
means The practice of keeping bees for honey, wax, and pollination — beekeeping dressed up in formal terms.
from From Latin apis, 'bee,' plus culture (from colere, 'to cultivate or tend'). The same apis shows up in apiary, a place where bees are kept. The word was coined in the 1800s when science liked to give everyday practices Latin names to make them sound respectable — so farming bees became 'apiculture,' the same way keeping fish became 'aquaculture.'
- name origin
- apis is latin for bee
- real job
- managing hives, not just harvesting honey
- bonus output
- wax, propolis, royal jelly, pollination services
- economic weight
- pollinates roughly a third of human food crops