Apiculture vs. Sericulture

Apiculturenoun

The keeping and maintenance of bees for commercial reasons.

Apiculturenoun

Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

Apiculturenoun

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

Sericulturenoun

(agriculture) The rearing of silkworms for the production of silk.

Sericulturenoun

The raising of silkworms.

Sericulturenoun

raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk

Sericulturenoun

the production of raw silk by raising silkworms

Sericulture

Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, Bombyx mori (the caterpillar of the domestic silkmoth) is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm.