2024
Apiculture
Name: Apiculture
Code: ZOO10427M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Animal Science
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
'Apiculture' integrates several topics related to the intervention of the common honeybee in the provision of ecosystem services and the production of goods and services of high socio-economic value.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Objectives
To understand the origin, evolution and distribution of the genus Apis. To know what A. mellifera is, how it normally behaves and which threats it faces. To raise awareness of the implications it poses to the beekeeping economics, the environment and the safety of the products/services it generates. To develop ways of intensifying/diversifying the productions/services that beekeeping can deliver. To detail the technological processing and pathways to evaluate the quality of bee products/services, identifying the main critical control points
Skills
To demonstrate thorough knowledge of biology, pathology and bee production systems. To analyse productive frameworks, to identify critical points and to build up monitoring schemes for the quality of bee products/services. Use computer and linguistic resources appropriate to the collection and efficient processing of information towards analyzing, evaluating, organizing, solving and/or communicating complex.
To understand the origin, evolution and distribution of the genus Apis. To know what A. mellifera is, how it normally behaves and which threats it faces. To raise awareness of the implications it poses to the beekeeping economics, the environment and the safety of the products/services it generates. To develop ways of intensifying/diversifying the productions/services that beekeeping can deliver. To detail the technological processing and pathways to evaluate the quality of bee products/services, identifying the main critical control points
Skills
To demonstrate thorough knowledge of biology, pathology and bee production systems. To analyse productive frameworks, to identify critical points and to build up monitoring schemes for the quality of bee products/services. Use computer and linguistic resources appropriate to the collection and efficient processing of information towards analyzing, evaluating, organizing, solving and/or communicating complex.
Contents
Evolution, diversity and biogeography; individual and colonial systems of self-regulation; intra- and extra-colonial communication; foraging and regulation of resource collection; replacement of individuals and colony reproduction; diseases, predators and intoxications; intensification and/or conciliation of various bee production systems or services; processing, transforming, evaluating and certifying bee products; monitoring of production systems towards increased added-value products; opportunities, threats and new horizons for beekeeping; new bee technologies and key bee research vectors.
Teaching Methods
Teaching methodologies:
Background, presentation and subjects? discussion in collective sessions (in room or via e-learning platform). Assisted learning experience (tutorial guidance) tailored to areas of higher professional relevance or personal interest. Proposal, defense, implementation, presentation and discussion of outcomes obtained from work such as (i) literature reviews, (ii) description, assessment and enhancement of bee production systems, products or services or (iii) research.
Evaluation:
One written assessment (50%). Literature revision, field or laboratory work (50%).
Background, presentation and subjects? discussion in collective sessions (in room or via e-learning platform). Assisted learning experience (tutorial guidance) tailored to areas of higher professional relevance or personal interest. Proposal, defense, implementation, presentation and discussion of outcomes obtained from work such as (i) literature reviews, (ii) description, assessment and enhancement of bee production systems, products or services or (iii) research.
Evaluation:
One written assessment (50%). Literature revision, field or laboratory work (50%).
Teaching Staff
- António Manuel Oliveira Coelho Murilhas [responsible]
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