Beekeeper's Economic Benefits Of Honeybees

Honeybees depend on nectar, pollen and water collected from their environments to survive. A process that exposes them to pesticides if contaminated pollen and nectar (Mullin et al., 2010), surface water (Ssebugere et al., 2009b), floral secretions produced from some plants (Gontijo & Moscardini, 2014) and exudation excreted from plants (Girolami et al., 2009) are harvested. Once collected, they store this food inside beehives hence contaminating the brood, beeswax and honey with pesticides if present. Presence of pesticide residues in food like honey has been reported detrimental to human health (Wesseling & McConnell, 1997) and products known to contain such residues are usually banned from trade causing beekeeper’s economic losses in unsold