A person who keeps bees, especially to produce honey.
Example: An apiarist enjoys working with an unusual kind of pet, the honeybee.
en: včelár
apiary
noun
A place where bees are kept; a collection of beehives.
Example: Apiaries come in many sizes and can be rural or urban depending on the honey production.
en: včelín
apiculture
noun
Technical term for beekeeping.
Example: Apiculture is the practice of beekeeping and the production of honey.
en: včelárstvo
beehive
noun
A dome-shaped or boxlike structure in which bees are kept.
Example: Flow is a revolutionary beehive invention, allowing you to harvest honey without opening the beehive and with minimal disturbance to the bees.
en: úľ
beeswax
noun
The wax secreted by bees to make honeycombs and used to make wood polishes and candles.
Example: She rubbed her furniture with beeswax.
en: včelí vosk
drone
noun
A male bee in a colony of social bees, which does no work but can fertilize a queen.
Example: Unlike the female worker bee, drones do not have stingers.
en: trúd
festooning
verb
A group of bees joins up and links legs to create a single line, or chain, across space within the hive.
Example: Young bees are not able to festoon, as a honeybee needs to be 12-20 days old, when they develop special wax producing glands in the abdomen.
en: festonovanie
foraging
verb
Obtain food or provisions by searching.
Example: Honey bees forage during daylight hours, when on a foraging flight, each honey bee only visits one species of flower per flight.
en: hľadanie potravy
hive tool
noun
A handheld multipurpose tool used in maintaining and inspecting beehives.
Example: We have hive tools for working on your beehives in a variety of sizes and styles.
en: rozperák
honeycomb
noun
A structure of hexagonal cells of wax, made by bees to store honey and eggs.
Example: Charles Darwin described bees' ability to build perfect honeycombs as “the most wonderful of all known instincts.”
en: včelí plást
pollen
noun
A fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone. Each grain contains a male gamete that can fertilize the female ovule, to which pollen is transported by the wind, insects, or other animals.
Example: Pollen is an airborne allergen, which is picked up and carried by the wind.
en: peľ
pollination
noun
The transfer of pollen to a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant to allow fertilization.
Example: The flowers depend on bees for pollination.
en: opelenie
proboscis
noun
An elongated sucking mouthpart that is typically tubular and flexible.
Example: The proboscis is another name for the tongue of a bee.
en: chobot (cuciak)
propolis
noun
A red or brown resinous substance collected by honeybees from tree buds, used by them to fill crevices and to fix and varnish honeycombs.
Example: In humans, propolis helps support our immune system.
en: propolis
royal jelly
noun
A highly nutritious secretion of the pharyngeal glands of the honeybee that is fed to the very young larvae in a colony and to all queen larvae.
Example: Royal jelly is a popular ingredient in skin creams, and the research supports its use as collagen enhancer.
en: materská kašička
smoker
noun
A device used in beekeeping to calm honey bees.
Example: A Beehive Smoker is one of the most important tools in your beekeeping arsenal.
en: dymák
spermatheca
noun
A sac for sperm storage in the female reproductive tract of various lower animals and especially insects.
Example: This result suggests that structural variations of the spermatheca strongly affect sperm dynamics.
en: spermatéka
supersedure
noun
The act or process of superseding, especially the replacement of an old or inferior queen bee by a young or superior queen.
Example: Natural supersedure usually occurs at the end of the summer or early autumn.
en: supersedúra
swarming
verb
Bees issue from the nest in large numbers in order to mate and found new colonies.
Example: In the process of swarming, a single colony splits into two or more distinct colonies.
en: rojenie
uncapping fork
phrase
A tool used to uncap the honey cells allowing honey flow during the extraction process.
Example: Honey uncapping forks are designed to scratch or lift off the wax on the corners of a capped frame that your plane or knife cannot reach.