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Albert Einstein quoted that “If bees disappear from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination… no more men!”. One third of our meal in daily plate is only because of bee services. Bee keeping or apiculture is the scientific method of conservation and rearing of bees for the production of important hive products such as honey, beeswax, royal jelly, bee venom and the pollination of various crops. Beekeeping is traditionally practiced in mountains, foothills, forest, agricultural lands, mangrove forests, etc. There are five major species of honeybees in India. T hey are Rock bee, Indian bee, Small bee, Dammer bee and Italian bee. Italian bee was introduced in India during 1880. Later on a sizable quantity of this species was imported from 1920 to 1951 in the states of Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Punjab and Kashmir but initially none succeeded. Apart from these five bee species, there are many more bee species available in India but not in large numbers.