Apiculture (beekeeping) Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bees and Beekeeping
Book SynopsisBees existed long before human beings, but our future is perhaps more reliant upon them than any other species. They pollinate 80 per cent of the world’s crops and plants, but how much do we really know about them? Small, clever and mysterious, the honeybee in particular has long been celebrated in human culture as a sacred insect, a symbol of the sun, bridging the gap between our world and the next. They are expert communicators, skilled aviators and natural alchemists, turning fresh nectar into sweet, golden honey. They are also in trouble and need our help. This beautifully illustrated guide explores the honeybee’s historic relationship with humans, the basics of beekeeping, and how we can help save the bees' dwindling population.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Honeybee and its Colony The First Beekeepers The Evolution of Beekeeping Beekeeping Heritage Bees and the Environment Honeybee Produce Further Reading Places to Visit Index
£8.54
Temple Lodge Publishing The Spiritual Foundations of Beekeeping
Book SynopsisThe honey bee has lived in close association with human beings for millennia. Tragically, however, humanity's once intimate connection with this unique creature has been harmed by our increasingly utilitarian and exploitative dealings with the natural world. We are now in urgent need of re-establishing a deeper relationship, not just for the sake of the bees themselves but for the whole of nature - and of course for ourselves.Lorenzen - a true master beekeeper - provides numerous insights to enable a more fruitful engagement with the living world. Offering an enrichment of the knowledge and practice of beekeeping, he discusses the origins of the honey bee, its relationship to the floral kingdom, the digestion of the bee, the treatment of bee diseases as well as appropriate beekeeping techniques. He also develops subtle spiritual concepts such as the idea of the bee colony as an 'individuality' and 'group-soul', providing new depth and wisdom to our understanding of how bees live and work.This small book, a hidden gem that has never before appeared in English, is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the honey bee and the future of humanity.Table of ContentsForeword - Introduction - Relation of the honey bee to the floral kingdom, and the developmental level of digestion in the bee - On the treatment of bee diseases - The origin of the honeybee - The bee colony as an individuality and group-soul - The question of appropriate beekeeping techniques
£10.44
Temple Lodge Publishing The Genius of Bees and the Elemental Beings: How
Book Synopsis'The most important task of the bees, apart from the preparation of honey, wax and propolis, is the healing of the atmosphere! The honey bee, apis mellifera, alone, is able to perform this task. This is its first and foremost purpose.' - Ralf RoessnerDescribing the Genius of Bees as the 'group consciousness' of the hive, Ralf Roessner presents an extraordinary commentary based on first-hand spiritual-scientific research and experience. He studies the mission of the Genius of Bees, the hexagonal structure of 'the crystalline heaven' within which the bees operate, and the healing of the world through their work. Roessner elucidates the relationships between the Genius of Bees, the elemental world and the human being. He also speaks of his personal experiences with the organic 'earth hive', giving instructions on how they are made, and offers practical advice on tackling the varroa mite. In this unique and original work, the author, '...attempts to describe the secrets of creation as far as he has experienced these himself'. As he goes on to clarify: 'Many matters, which could only be vaguely perceived in former times, can now be investigated in a spiritual-scientific manner.A secret is only a secret to the extent it escapes the individual human being's powers of consciousness'. Anyone seeking deeper insights into the world of the honey bee will be enriched by the content of this book.Table of ContentsPreface - INTRODUCTION - The Signs of Change - THE MISSION OF THE GENIUS OF THE BEES - Cosmic Fertilization - About the Physical, Etheric, Astral and Spiritual Plane - The Influence of Elemental Beings - Plant Growth Within the Mantle of Warmth Ether - The Language of Form in Plants, Cosmic Fertilization of Blossoms - Further Details on the Act of Fertilization - THE HEALING OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE GENIUS OF THE BEES - The Crystalline Heaven - The Etheric Body of the Earth - On the Origin of the Genius of the Bees - The Influence of the Heart and the Mission of the Geniusof the Bees - STRUCTURE OF THE BEES, HEXAGONAL STRUCTURE OF THE CRYSTALLINE HEAVEN - THE HUMAN BEING AND THE GENIUS OF THE BEES - The Bee, the Human Being and Elemental Beings - Communicating with the Genius of the Bees - BEE LIFE WITHIN THE EARTH HIVE - A Special Experience - What the Genius of the Bees Wanted to Tell Me - How Can the Human Being Help? - THE GENIUS OF BEES - PRACTICAL TASKS - The Earth Hive From Masuria - Proportions/Recipe - Catching a Swarm with a Brood Comb - Further Advice When Working with the Earth Hive - The Varroa Treatment - Additional Feeding - FINAL THOUGHTS - The First Encounter of Man and Bee
£9.49
Northern Bee Books 100 Plants for Beekeepers
Book SynopsisFrom around 130 million years ago flowering plants and insects have evolved together in something called co-evolution. This has resulted in a number of different ways of attracting insects to the plants.Entomophilous plant species have frequently evolved mechanisms to make themselves more appealing to insects, e.g. brightly coloured or scented flowers, nectar, or appealing shapes and patterns. Pollen grains of entomophilous plants are generally larger than the fine pollens or anemophilous (wind-pollinated) plants, which has to be produced in much larger quantities because such a high proportion is wasted. This is energetically costly, but in contrast, entomophilous plants have to bear the energetic costs of producing nectar. Butterflies and moths have hairy bodies and long proboscides which can probe deep into tubular flowers. Butterflies mostly fly by day and are particularly attracted to pink, mauve and purple flowers. The flowers are often large and scented, and the stamens are so-positioned that pollen is deposited on the insects while they feed on the nectar. Moths are mostly nocturnal and are attracted by night-blooming plants. The flowers of these are often tubular, pale in colour and fragrant only at night. Hawkmoths tend to visit larger flowers and hover as they feed; they transfer pollen by means of the proboscis. Other moths land on the usually smaller flowers, which may be aggregated into flower heads. Their energetic needs are not as great as those of hawkmoths and they are offered smaller quantities of nectar. Flowers pollinated by bees and wasps vary in shape, colour and size. Yellow or blue plants are often visited, and flowers may have ultra-violet nectar guides, that help the insect to find the nectary. Some flowers, like sage or pea, have lower lips that will only open when sufficiently heavy insects, such as bees, land on them. With the lip depressed, the anthers may bow down to deposit pollen on the insect''s back. Other flowers, like tomato, may only liberate their pollen by buzz pollination, a technique in which a bumblebee will cling on to a flower while vibrating its flight muscles, and the dislodges the pollen. Because bees care for their brood, they need to collect more food than to just maintain themselves and, therefore, are important pollinators. Other bees are nectar thieves and bite their way through the corolla in order to raid the nectary, in the process bypassing the reproductive structures. Some plant species co-evolved with a particular pollinator species, such as the bee orchid. The species is almost exclusively self-pollinating in its northern ranges but is pollinated by the solitary bee Eucera in the Mediterranean area. The plant attracts these insects by producing a scent that mimics the scent of the female bee. In addition, the lip acts as a decoy, as the male bee confuses it with a female that is visiting a pink flower. Pollen transfer occurs during the ensuing pseudo-copulation. Inflorescences pollinated by beetles tend to be flat with open corollas or small flowers clustered in a head with multiple, projecting anthers that shed pollen readily. The flowers are often green or pale-coloured, and heavily-scented, often with fruity or spicy aromas, but sometimes with odours of decaying organic matter. Some, like the giant water lily, include traps designed to retain the beetles in contact with the reproductive parts for longer periods. Other Nectar GuidesNectar guides can be both visible and invisible to the human eye but more importantly they are very visible to the bees in the ultraviolet spectrum. This adaptation benefits both the flower (more efficient pollination) and the bee (rapid collection of nectar).
£17.05
Northern Bee Books Splitting Colonies for the Small-Scale Beekeeper
Book SynopsisSplitting Colonies is an important means of colony increase and swarming mitigation. Splitting is an art as much as a science. It should be noted splitting timing will vary year to year based on the local weather and conditions. This book contains information on when to split based on when the nectar flow starts in your area. Several splitting methods are discussed such as a "walk away split," split with a mated queen, and a split with swarm cells. Each method has its benefits and detriments. The genesis for this book was a Bee Culture article (Splitting Colonies: Second Edition, Bee Culture, July, 2022)."''Splitting Colonies for the Small-Scale Beekeeper'' provides a good overview of the biology of, and the skills needed, to become successful at this most critical beekeeping management operation."Kim Flottum - Growing Planet Media"Well illustrated and very easy to follow splitting a colony information. Very helpful for beginners and more experienced beekeepers alike."Dewey Caron - University of Delaware"''Splitting Colonies for the Small-Scale Beekeeper'' by David MacFawn. It''s all there whether you are a small, medium or large beekeeper ... Learn to do it successfully here!!"Jerry Hayes - Editor, Bee Culture Magazine
£999.99
Austin MacAuley Publishers Fze Bees and Beekeeping in the United Arab Emirates
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£52.46
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Beehive Alchemy: Projects and recipes using
Book SynopsisFrom crayons to cough drops, cookies to candles, Beehive Alchemy offers a comprehensive introduction to incorporating the miracle of bees into everyday life.Beehive Alchemy is a continuation of Petra Ahnert's best-selling Beeswax Alchemy. With this new book, beekeepers (and bee lovers) will learn about the benefits and attributes of beeswax, honey, propolis, and more alongside a full range of projects and techniques to process and harness the amazing gifts of bees. Inside, you'll find instructions to make Ahnert's award-winning hand-dipped birthday candles, the classic French dessert canele bordelais, and much more, including:Alchemy for the Body Liquid soap with honey Beard balm Olive and honey lotion Alchemy of Light Taper candles Tea lights Pillars Alchemy for the Home Furniture polish Waxed cotton food wraps Woodcutter incense Alchemy in the Studio Beeswax crayons Encaustic Batik Alchemy in the Kitchen Cookies and candies Beverages Fermentations Whether you keep bees or just love them, Beehive Alchemy will become your go-to comprehensive guide for hive-to-home creations.
£17.09
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc First Time Beekeeping: An Absolute Beginner's
Book SynopsisThis indispensable beekeeping reference—packed with helpful diagrams, color photos, and easy-to-follow yet thorough instruction—gently guides you through setting up and caring for your first colonies. Are you an absolute beginner when it comes to keeping bees? With First Time Beekeeping, help is at hand. Featuring the sage advice of Bee Culture editor emeritus and best-selling author of The Backyard Beekeeper Kim Flottum, this is your step-by-step guide to healthy, happy, and productive hives. This complete resource features expert beginner advice for: Setting up and caring for your own colonies Selecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yours The most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees Harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey Bee problems and treatments By following this advice, your colony or two of honey bees can pollinate the vegetables in your garden; produce wonderful honey and other beneficial products; and help your local ecosystem thrive. What could be sweeter? Each book in the First Time series distills how-to guidance and advice from an expert on a specific topic into targeted step-by-step instruction geared toward the absolute beginner.Table of ContentsPREFACE INTRODUCTION 1 STARTING RIGHT GETTING STARTED BEEYARDS OTHER THAN BACKYARDS EQUIPMENT: TOOLS OF THE TRADE THE BEES 2 ABOUT BEES THE QUEEN THE WORKERS FORAGERS DRONES 3 ABOUT BEEKEEPING LIGHTING YOUR SMOKER PACKAGE MANAGEMENT KEEPING RECORDS OPENING A COLONY INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT MALADIES COMB HONEY AND CUT-COMB HONEY SUMMERTIME CHORES LATE SUMMER HARVEST FALL AND WINTER MANAGEMENT EARLY SPRING INSPECTIONS RESOURCES ABOUT THE AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PHOTOGRAPHER CREDITS INDEX
£13.49
Northern Bee Books The Observant Beekeeper
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£36.00
Northern Bee Books The Beekeeping Year
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£9.95
Northern Bee Books Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey
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£18.52
Northern Bee Books Guide to Bees Honey The Worlds Best Selling
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£14.24
Conscious Stories The Bee Who Could Not Choose Her Flower: Teaching kids the valuable lesson of making choices
£12.63
Laurence King Publishing Beehive Mancala
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£14.44
Northern Bee Books Asian Hornet The Beekeepers Guide to Defences
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£23.40
Dorling Kindersley Ltd The Bee Book
Book SynopsisFergus Chadwick grew up in rural County Durham in the UK, and from an early age his interest in nature was apparent. Spending most of his childhood chasing insects, he took up beekeeping at the age of 13, under the mentorship of local beekeeper John Simon. From that moment on, he was hooked on bees. He went on to study Biological Sciences at Somerville College, the University of Oxford, where his work on the relationship between bees and neonicotinoid pesticides (carried out at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) formed the basis of his dissertation. His current research focuses broadly on bee behaviour under the influence of pesticides. He is a passionate advocate of science communication and access to education. Steve Alton is an ecologist, botanist, and beekeeper's assistant who looks after Ashdown Forest, an area of heathland in Sussex best known as the home of Winnie the Pooh. Before that he worked for 13 years at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, collecting seeds for thTrade ReviewBeautifully designed with great illustrations and pictures * BBC Good Food *
£16.99
Northern Bee Books Honey Marketing
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£6.62
Nova Science Publishers Inc Honey: Current Research & Clinical Applications
Book SynopsisIn the last few years, with increasing frequency, modern medicine directs attention to natural products with biological and therapeutic properties and their use in clinical practice. The major arguments for implementing natural products, such as honey, are low cost and the absence of antimicrobial resistance risk. This book presents original current research and clinical results on the leading edge of honey research. Topics discussed include the antimicrobial and anti-biofilm properties of honey; possible anticancer and anti-diabetic properties of honey; immunomodulatory effects of honey on cutenous and immune cells during wound healing process; topical applications of honey and the use of honey in the treatment of burns, non-healing wounds and eye diseases.
£146.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc Honey: Production, Consumption & Health Benefits
Book SynopsisIn both ancient and modern civilisations, honey represents a natural product of great importance with many functional applications. Honey is used simply as a sweetener and is known as a food with significant nutritional properties and as a natural product with valuable therapeutic applications, due to its biological effects, such as an antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-tumour, anti-inflammatory and antiviral. This book focuses on the production, consumption and health benefits of honey and discusses the impact of different honey types on the content of trace materials, composition of phenolic and flavonoid antioxidant activity contributing to human health; high performance liquid chromatography determination of antibiotics in honey; phenolic compounds in honey as health promoters; quality control of honey using spectroscopic methods and medicalisation of honey.
£146.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc Bee Health: Background, Issues & the Role of
Book SynopsisBees, both commercially managed honey bees and wild bees, play an important role in global food production. In the United States alone, the value of insect pollination to U.S. agricultural production is estimated at $16 billion annually, of which about three-fourths is attributable to honey bees. Worldwide, the contribution of bees and other insects to global crop production for human food is valued at about $190 billion. Given the importance of honey bees and other bee species to food production, many have expressed concern about whether a pollinator crisis has been occurring in recent decades. Over the past few decades there has been heightened concern about the plight of honey bees as well as other bee and pollinator species. This book provides a background on bee health. It also discusses the role of pesticides in bee health and provides guidance to risk assessors for evaluating the potential risk of pesticides to bees, particularly honey bees.
£159.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Improving the Health of Honey Bees & Other
Book SynopsisWherever flowering plants flourish, pollinating bees, birds, butterflies, bats, and other animals are hard at work, providing vital but often unnoticed services. But many pollinators are in serious decline in the United States and worldwide. Preventing continued losses of our country''s pollinators requires immediate national attention, as pollinators play a critical role in maintaining diverse ecosystems and in supporting agricultural production. Some three-fourths of all native plants in the world require pollination by an animal, most often an insect, and most often a native bee. Pollinators, most often honey bees, are also responsible for one in every three bites of food we take, and increase our nation''s crop values each year by more than 15 billion dollars. Unabated, these losses of our pollinators threaten agricultural production, the maintenance of natural plant communities, and the important services provided by those ecosystems, such as carbon cycling, flood and erosion control, and recreation. This book discusses national strategies and research action plans to improve the health of honey bees and other pollinators.
£999.99
Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd Secret Benefits of Lemon & Honey
Book SynopsisEvery day. People all over the world are going the organic way, and the use of natural products is on the rise.Natural, easily available, safe and inexpensive -- lemon and honey are essential ingredients of many age-old recipes for a beautiful and healthy body.Crossing the threshold of the kitchen, they have found a place of pride in several modern-day cosmetics. The therapeutic properties of lemon and honey have been proven to be viable alternatives to the toxic side effects of antibiotics.Read this book to learn all about the beneficial effects of lemon and honey. Presented in this book is a collection of home remedies for medical as well as beauty problems and also recipes that can be adopted by both novices and professionals for a healthier and more refreshing life.
£6.22
Park Row Books The Honey Bus
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£999.99
Northern Bee Books Garden Plants Valuable to Bees
£13.59
Northern Bee Books Honey a comprehensive survey
£66.02
Northern Bee Books BEEKEEPING STUDY NOTES for the BBKA EXAMINATIONS VOLUME 2 Modules 5 6 7 and 8 v 2
£35.00
Northern Bee Books Beekeeping Study Notes for the BBKA Examinations Volume 1 modules 1 2 and 3 Modules 1 2 3
£30.00
Northern Bee Books Brother Adam In Search of the Best Strains of Bees And the Results of the Evaluations of the Crosses and Races
£19.07
Northern Bee Books Breeding the Honeybee A Contribution to the Science of Beebreeding
£18.58
Northern Bee Books Oilseed Rape and Bees
£16.56
LEGARE STREET PR A A Manual
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£22.75
Legare Street Press Rational Beekeeping and the Prevention of Acarine Disease
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£21.80
Legare Street Press Petit Manuel Dapiculture À Lusage Des Écoles
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£22.75
Legare Street Press The The Beekeepers Review Volume 20
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£23.70
Legare Street Press Building Up Colonies
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£999.99
Legare Street Press ImkerGedenkbuch
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£23.70
Legare Street Press Diseases of Bees
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£37.00
LEGARE STREET PR Manuel Nécessaire Au Villageois Pour Soigner Les Abeilles
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£999.99
Legare Street Press Les Abeilles Trésor Des Montagnes
£14.09
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper
Book SynopsisNow in paperback, Marina Marchese's inspirational and practical story of learning to raise honeybees and creating a life she loves '[An] engaging, delightfully informative work?' ?Publishers Weekly 'Marchese has given us a lovely gift. Honeybee is an entertaining and useful primer for the novice and honeybee devotee alike.' ?Washington Times 'Surpassing the predictable 'how I changed careers' memoir of finding the good life, Marchese's informative guide is packed with facts about everything from pollination to harvesting, life cycles to historical lore, nutritional benefits to gourmet flavor combinations, medical applications to unusual varieties.' ?BooklistIn 1999, Marina Marchese fell in love with bees during a tour of a neighbor's honeybee hives. She quit her job, acquired her own bees, built her own hives, harvested honey, earned a certificate in apitherapy, studied wine tasting in order to transfer those skills to honey tasting, and eventually opened her own honey business. Today, Red Bee? Honey sells artisanal honey and honey-related products to shops and restaurants all over the country. More than an inspiring story of one woman's transformative relationship with honeybees (some of nature's most fascinating creatures), Honeybee is also bursting with information about all aspects of bees, beekeeping, and honey?including life inside the hive; the role of the queen, workers, and drones; pollination and its importance to sustaining all life; the culinary pleasures of honey; hiving and keeping honeybees; the ancient practice of apitherapy, or healing with honey, pollen, and bee venom; and much more. Recipes for food and personal care products appear throughout. Also included is an excellent, one-of-a-kind appendix that lists 75 different honey varietals, with information on provenance, tasting notes, and food-and-wine pairings.
£12.99
X-Star Publishing Company Queen Rearing Simplified
£16.71
X-Star Publishing Company Huber's New Observations Upon Bees The Complete Volumes I & II
£47.50
X-Star Publishing Company The Practical Beekeeper Volume I Beginning Beekeeping Naturally
£22.77
X-Star Publishing Company The Practical Beekeeper Volume II Intermediate Beekeeping Naturally
£22.77
X-Star Publishing Company The Practical Beekeeper Volume III Advanced Beekeeping Naturally
£22.77
X-Star Publishing Company Beekeeping Naturally: A Simple Recipe
£20.00
X-Star Publishing Company El Apicultor Practico Volumenes I, II & III Apicultor Natural
£44.10
X-Star Publishing Company Der Praktische Imker, Natürliche Bienenzucht
£44.10
