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Agriculture · Q339

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 339

Q339

In India more honey is obtained from which bee?

A.
Little bee
B.
Indian bee
C.
Italian bee
D.
Rock bee
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
In India more honey is obtained from Rock bees.
A rock honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia.
One of its subspecies, the Indian honey bee (A. c. indica), was domesticated and kept in hives in a fashion similar to A. mellifera, though on a more limited, regional scale.
The Apis Mellifera is the most common bee species in the world, and the most extensively farmed 75% of honey produced in India comes from them.