A shot decapitated bird of prey, raising a lot of insects (10)
I believe the answer is:
apiculture
'lot of insects' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'a shot decapitated bird of prey raising a' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' is found in the answer.
'shot' could be 'pic' (short for picture) and 'pic' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for apiculture that I've seen before include "propagating social communities" , "Beekeeping" .)