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Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Animal husbandry > Apiculture (beekeeping)
"Practical Beekeeping" is the complete guide to the bee and its
management. Topics covered include the bee and its environment;
hives and other equipment; management of the apiary; and control of
pests and diseases. Profusely illustrated with photographs and
specially commissioned line illustrations, this book will be an
invaluable addition to the bookshelf of anyone involved in
beekeeping.
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Bee Quest
(Paperback)
Dave Goulson
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R303
R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
Save R57 (19%)
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'Warmly entertaining...an endearing account of the search for rare
bees' Guardian A hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave
Goulson from Poland to Patagonia as well as closer to home, amongst
the secret places hidden right under our noses: the abandoned
industrial estates where great crested newts roam; or the rewilded
estate at Knepp Castle, where, with the aid of some hairy,
bluebell-eating Tamworth pigs, nightingale song has been heard for
the first time in generations. Whether he is tracking great yellow
bumblebees in the Hebrides or chasing orchid bees through the
Ecuadorian jungle, Dave Goulson's wit, humour and deep love of
nature make him the ideal travelling companion.
This title offers everything you ever wanted to know about the
biology, rearing and breeding of queen bees. Divided into three
major chapters with many sub-sections, "Queen Bee" is a definitive
guide to the biology and breeding of queen bees. It includes:
Chapter One - Queen Bee Biology, Introduction, Castes, Anatomy
& Lifecycle, Reproduction, Castes, Development, Egg Laying,
Pheromones, and Diseases; Chapter Two - Queen Bee Rearing
Equipment, Grafting & non-Grafting, Capture & Transport,
Swarming & Nucleus Hives, and Nutrition; and, Chapter Three -
Queen Bee Breeding, Genetics & Reprduction, Stock Selection
& Improvement, Breeding Programmes, Instrumental Insemination,
and Glossary.
Keeping Bees and Making Honey is a stunning, comprehensive and
attractive lifestyle guide to beekeeping packed with images,
information, practical advice, useful resources and recipes.
Whether you have a tiny balcony or acres of land; live in the
middle of a city or in the countryside surrounded by flowers, you
can keep bees. Keeping Bees and Making Honey caters for every
situation, and covers everything you will need to consider before
you set up your colony - including when and how to tell the
neighbours! 'Understanding your bees' introduces you to the history
of bees and humans, the anatomy of a honey bee, the variety of
species that you are likely to encounter, the caste system within a
colony of queen, worker and drone, and the birth and life cycle of
bees. 'What to consider' suggests factors to consider before
keeping bees, from the space where you will house your hives to
children and pets. Learn about the variety of hives available and
how they work, as well all the important things that you will need
including protective clothing, a smoker and hive tool, as well as
honey-harvesting equipment. There are a variety of sources for
purchasing your bees and 'Where and when to get your bees' will
give you all the advice you need covering the nucleus, packaged
bees, full colonies and tips on marking the queen. There are
detailed sections on pollen and supers. 'Gardening for bees' will
help you consider the best flowers to supply nectar and pollen to
your bees whilst ensuring your garden looks great! It is probably
the prospect of home-grown honey that entices most people to keep
bees. 'All about honey' will show you how bees make honey, and how
to harvest, jar and sell your honey. There is a whole chapter
devoted to other bee products, from uses of beeswax; candles and
cosmetics, to delicious recipes made with honey. Finally, 'Health
and care' will ensure that your apiary stays clean and tidy, and
your colony is pest free, strong and vigorous. This updated and
revised edition of Keeping Bees and Making Honey includes new
material on bees as a superorganism, keeping bees in urban
locations such as schools and at work, caring for bees during the
winter, your second year as a bee keeper and more on bee health,
varroa and colony collapse disorder. Environmentally there has
never been a more important time to start beekeeping, nor is there
a better antidote to the stresses of everyday life. Keeping Bees
and Making Honey is the ideal companion for you if you are planning
to start keeping bees in order to contribute to their conservation
and to enjoy the considerable benefits of this fascinating hobby.
Our stripey friends need you! Bees, wasps, hoverflies and other
stripey insects are essential to keeping us, and our planet, alive.
Discover the simple ways you can help them thrive in all green
spaces - from gardens to window boxes and pots - with insect
champion Nicola Bradbear, from Bees for Development charity. There
are lots of fun things you can do whatever space you have. And
these acts of kindness will all make a big difference. With every
book sold, proceeds will be donated to Bees for Development
(www.beesfordevelopment.org)
After a chance meeting in the pub, Roger Morgan-Grenville and his friend Duncan decide to take up beekeeping. Their enthusiasm matched only by their ignorance, they are pitched into an arcane world of unexpected challenges.
Coping with many setbacks along the way, they manage to create a colony of beehives, finishing two years later with more honey than anyone knows what to do with. By standing back from their normal lives and working with the cycle of the seasons, they emerge with a new-found understanding of nature and a respect for the honeybee and the threats it faces.
Wryly humorous and surprisingly moving, Liquid Gold is the story of a friendship between two unlikely men at very different stages of their lives. It is also an uplifting account of the author’s own midlife journey: coming to terms with an empty nest, getting older, looking for something new.
"Buzz is a fascinating reminder of the interconnections between
humans and animals, even in that most urban of environments, New
York City."--Gary Alan Fine, author of Authors of the Storm:
Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction Bees are essential for
human survival--one-third of all food on American dining tables
depends on the labor of bees. Beyond pollination, the very idea of
the bee is ubiquitous in our culture: we can feel buzzed; we can
create buzz; we have worker bees, drones, and Queen bees; we
establish collectives and even have communities that share a
hive-mind. In Buzz, authors Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut
convincingly argue that the power of bees goes beyond the food
cycle, bees are our mascots, our models, and, unlike any other
insect, are both feared and revered. In this fascinating account,
Moore and Kosut travel into the land of urban beekeeping in New
York City, where raising bees has become all the rage. We follow
them as they climb up on rooftops, attend beekeeping workshops and
honey festivals, and even put on full-body beekeeping suits and
open up the hives. In the process, we meet a passionate, dedicated,
and eclectic group of urban beekeepers who tend to their brood with
an emotional and ecological connection that many find restorative
and empowering. Kosut and Moore also interview professional
beekeepers and many others who tend to their bees for their
all-important production of a food staple: honey. The artisanal
food shops that are so popular in Brooklyn are a perfect place to
sell not just honey, but all manner of goods: soaps, candles,
beeswax, beauty products, and even bee pollen. Buzz also examines
media representations of bees, such as children's books, films, and
consumer culture, bringing to light the reciprocal way in which the
bee and our idea of the bee inform one another. Partly an
ethnographic investigation and partly a meditation on the very
nature of human/insect relations, Moore and Kosut argue that how we
define, visualize, and interact with bees clearly reflects our
changing social and ecological landscape, pointing to how we
conceive of and create culture, and how, in essence, we create
ourselves. Lisa Jean Moore is a feminist medical sociologist and
Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College,
State University of New York. Mary Kosut is Associate Professor of
Media, Society and the Arts at Purchase College, State University
of New York. In the Biopolitics series
Listen to the bees.
Bees reflect human society - understand them and we can get a little closer to understanding ourselves. Humans and bees have enjoyed a close relationship for millennia, and the entries in this book reflect at least two thousand years of fascination with the world's favourite insect. Monarch, celebrity, monk, peasant, warrior or regular Joe, there are few who haven't fallen under the spell of bees and the riches they bring. From superstition to science, cake recipes to self-help, these quotes are a mirror to ourselves - our hopes and fears, our lives and deaths. Not to mention our taste-buds.
In tandem with the recent surge in interest by various industry
players in meliponiculture that see the rapid expansion of the
stingless industry globally, there is a need to disseminate new
knowledge and research findings in stingless beekeeping. The demand
for honey-based products and related activities in meliponiculture
opens many opportunities and new challenges in the stingless bee
industry that require answers and solutions. Recent Advances in
Global Meliponiculture highlights the most recent work on
meliponine and meliponiculture. It disseminates information, shares
recent works, and fosters a global network on stingless bee
research. Covering topics such as pollination services, vertical
hive technology, and honey applications, this premier reference
source is an essential resource for practitioners, meliponists,
apiarists, students and educators of higher education, librarians,
researchers, and academicians.
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