1) Apiculture 2) Cultivation 3) Insect domestication 1) Apiculture 
Beekeeping (or apiculture, from apis `bee`) is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, by humans. A beekeeper (or apiarist) keeps bees in order to collect their honey and other products that the hive produces (including beeswax, propolis, pollen, and royal jelly), to pollinate crops, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeep.....
care and management of colonies of honeybees. They are kept for their honey and other products or their services as pollinators of fruit and ... [3 related articles]
[n] - the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey
apiculture noun the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey
the rearing and breeding of honeybees; apiculture.