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Control of Varroa
Author: Mark Goodwin
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780473123925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a guide for New Zealand beekeepers on how to control Varroa in your hives.
Interviews With Beekeepers
Author: Steve Donohoe
Publisher:
Published: 2020-04-22
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781919627601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beekeeping is many things to many people. Maybe it's a hobby, a vocation, a commercial enterprise or your field of study. It will almost certainly become an obsession. For author Steve Donohoe, beekeeping was a form of therapy - an escape from the stresses of corporate life to something natural and healing. Steve decided to write the book that he wanted to read but couldn't find anywhere. Seeking out some of the most successful beekeepers in the world, Steve spent time with them, interviewed and got to know them. This book is a collection of the wisdom, experiences, opinions and stories of these legends of beekeeping. A rare insight into the lives of commercial beekeepers, warts and all, Interviews With Beekeepers is gold dust to anyone who wants to know more about keeping bees. A unique book on beekeeping, bee farming, raising queen bees, honey crops, dealing with swarming, finding apiary sites and much more.
Natural Beekeeping
Author: Ross Conrad
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2013-03-08
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1603583637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Whether you are a novice looking to get started with bees, an experienced apiculturist looking for ideas to develop an integrated pest-management approach, or someone who wants to sell honey at a premium price, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Now revised and updated with new resources and including full-color photos throughout, Natural Beekeeping offers all the latest information in a book that has already proven invaluable for organic beekeepers. The new edition offers the same holistic, sensible alternative to conventional chemical practices with a program of natural hive management, but offers new sections on a wide range of subjects, including: The basics of bee biology and anatomy Urban beekeeping Identifying and working with queens Parasitic mite control Hive diseases Also, a completely new chapter on marketing provides valuable advice for anyone who intends to sell a wide range of hive products. Other chapters include: Hive Management Genetics and Breeding The Honey Harvest The Future of Organic Beekeeping Ross Conrad brings together the best “do no harm” strategies for keeping honeybees healthy and productive with nontoxic methods of controlling mites; eliminating American foulbrood disease without the use of antibiotics; selective breeding for naturally resistant bees; and many other detailed management techniques, which are covered in a thoughtful, matter-of-fact way.
Varroa Management: a Practical Guide on how to Manage Varroa Mites in Honey Bee Colonies
Author: Kirsty Stainton
Publisher: Northern Bee Books
Published: 2022-07-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781914934414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This booklet is the essential user-guide to Varroa treatments. In this guide you will learn: Why Varroa mites are such a serious pest of honey bees. How to spot signs that a honey bee colony is carrying a high mite burden. How to perform regular monitoring for Varroa mites. How to choose the correct treatment for the time of year and colony conditions. The precise methods for applying any treatment on the market, including specific methods for treating nucs. How to use husbandry techniques to manage mites without the need for chemicals, with step by step guides. This resource will provide you with everything you need to know for practical management of Varroa mites. "Kirsty Stainton has produced a superb practical guide for beekeepers to understand and manage Varroa mites. The natural history and parasitism is described in an easy to understand manner and is followed up with an excellent guide on the various treatments available. All beekeepers should have this book as a reference for the future." John Hill - MVB MRCVS President, British Bee Veterinary Association
The Anatomy of the Honey Bee
Author: Dr. R. E. Snodgrass
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1789120144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“As a world authority on insect anatomy, Snodgrass has given us this book a brilliant account of the anatomy of the honey bee and how it relates to the way that bees develop and how and why they function as they do in their interesting communal life. This book should be in the library of every student of the honey bee and bee behaviour—beekeepers as well as scientists. The book is delightfully written and is enjoyable reading.”—American Bee Journal “This is not just a technical reference book on honey bee anatomy. It is far more, it is essentially a treatise on entomology, using one species as an example, and including a discussion of the fundamentals of embryology, development, and metamorphosis as well as anatomy. The subject of each chapter is approached from the broadest evolutionary point of view, and its horizon includes all the arthropods and beyond, so that the bee really typifies animal life in general. Finally, the language of the book is such that it can be read straight through with pleasure....It is a delight to follow the author through this complete examination of one insect: how it develops, how it grows, and how it operates.”—Entomological News
Status of Pollinators in North America
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007-05-13
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0309102898
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pollinators-insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction-are an essential part of natural and agricultural ecosystems throughout North America. For example, most fruit, vegetable, and seed crops and some crops that provide fiber, drugs, and fuel depend on animals for pollination. This report provides evidence for the decline of some pollinator species in North America, including America's most important managed pollinator, the honey bee, as well as some butterflies, bats, and hummingbirds. For most managed and wild pollinator species, however, population trends have not been assessed because populations have not been monitored over time. In addition, for wild species with demonstrated declines, it is often difficult to determine the causes or consequences of their decline. This report outlines priorities for research and monitoring that are needed to improve information on the status of pollinators and establishes a framework for conservation and restoration of pollinator species and communities.
Treatment Free Beekeeping
Author: David Heaf
Publisher: Ibra & Nbb
Published: 2021-01-04
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781913811006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since varroa arrived in Europe and America in the 1980s, most beekeepers have found it necessary to treat their colonies with chemicals in order to avoid heavy colony losses. But a minority of beekeepers have managed to care for their colonies without the use of chemicals and have done so with not just tolerable colony losses, but with losses that are sometimes equal to or smaller than the losses of those beekeepers who treat with chemicals. With the help of thirty examples of treatment-free beekeepers in Europe and America, including famous names in varroa-resistant bee breeding, this book documents the encouraging success and growing popularity of beekeeping without chemicals, and details the bee husbandries of the beekeepers presented.
New Perspectives on Varroa
Bad Beekeeping
Author: Ron Miksha
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781412006279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A million pounds of honey. Produced by a billion bees! This memoir reconstructs the life of a young man from Pennsylvania as he drops into the bald prairie badlands of southern Saskatchewan. He buys a honey ranch and keeps the bees that make the honey. But he also spends winters in Florida swamps, nurse-maid to ten thousand dainty queen bees. From the dusty Canadian prairie to the thick palmetto swamps of the American south, the reader meets with simple folks who shape the protagonist's character - including a Cree rancher with three sons playing NHL hockey, a Hutterite preacher who yearns to roam the globe, a reclusive bee-eating homesteader, and a grey-headed widow who grows grapefruit, plays a nasty game of scrabble, and lives with four vicious dogs. Encompassing a ten-year period, this true story evolves from the earnest inexperience of the young man as he learns an art and builds a business. Carefully researched natural biology runs counterpoint to human social activities. Bee craft serves as the setting for expositions that contrast American and Canadian lifestyles, while exemplifying the harsh reality of a man working with and against the physical environment.
