What's the difference between apiculture and sericulture?

Apiculture


Definition:

  • (n.) Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Type A, B and C spores were detected in three of 56 samples of sugar for apiculture, which may attest the significance of bee-feed as a source of contamination of honey.
  • (2) involving the hawk week Hieracium up to about 1873), vegetable and fruit tree horticulture, apiculture, and agriculture in general.

Sericulture


Definition:

  • (n.) The raising of silkworms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The developed methods of sex control have found wide application in theoretical investigations of various directions and practical sericulture.
  • (2) Aflatoxin B(1) (0.05 muM per larvae) was detected in silkworm larvae artificially attacked by an Aspergillus flavus isolate from a sericultural farm in Japan.

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