The textbook discusses the specifics of identifying and controlling bee diseases and pests, measures to prevent bee poisoning with pesticides and agrochemicals, transportation and protection of apiaries, pollination of plants with bees, aeroapitherapy, as well as the need for bees in water and the impact on them irrigation methods. Information on areas of diversification in beekeeping, problems of beekeeping in Russia is presented. Consumers of honey and beekeepers will be interested in information about beekeeping in Crimea, the dynamics of the development of organic beekeeping in the world and Russia.