Apiculture in a sentence as a noun

It's fairly common to **** off bee colonies for the winter in apiculture, though, isn't it?

Presumably apiculture occasionally involves accidentally squashing and killing some bees as you slide comb frames in and out?

For example in De animalibus insectis libri septem by Ulisse Aldrovandi[1][2]It may even be in the order of thousands of years even though we don't have written accounts of it, given that's how we have practiced apiculture and had the opportunity to closely observe the phenomenon.

Apiculture definitions

noun

the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey

See also: beekeeping