Enjoy a thriving hive and plenty of delicious honey. This practical guide to beekeeping stresses practices that are based on an understanding of the intimate lives, behaviors, and motivations of honey bees.
Author: Richard E. Bonney
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: MINN:31951D01643179V
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 152
View: 508
Offers concise, up-to-date information on beekeeping tasks, including how to prevent, capture, and control swarms, when and how to harvest honey, and dealing successfully with queens
... procedures checking hive structural stability in preparation for transport securing hive components according to workplace procedures securing the bees according to transport plan and hive management strategy cleaning hives of soil ...
Author: Jennifer Laffan
Publisher: NSW Agriculture
ISBN: 9780731306039
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 186
View: 568
A clear, practical guide to beekeeping produced by a team of experienced apiary officers from NSW DPI. Includes how to use a bee smoker and work safely with bees, how to maintain hives, how to catch a swarm, how to remove and extract honey, how to replace a queen bee, and common health and pest problems in beehives. With step-by-step photographs, clear diagrams, and a linked glossary of terms. CONTENTS Introduction Foreword Background knowledge General safety precautions Select bee site Assemble and maintain a hive Obtaining bees (buy hives) Obtaining bees (buy packages) Light and extinguish a bee smoker Open, inspect and close a hive Move a hive Seasonal management Catch a swarm Re-queen Identify flora for honey production Judging field conditions Remove honey Extract honey Legal considerations for an apiary Health problems and pests in the hive Reducing swarming behaviour Buying second-hand hives and equipment Quality assurance Industry structure and contacts Glossary Managing Work Health and Safety risks Check your skill Further reading
1972 Hive Management History Series No. 13 , Easton : Hive Publishing Company . ) ' Frederick W. Taylor : memorial number , 1915-1940 . Ten articles on scientific management experience , yesterday and today , in peace and defense ...
Author: John Cunningham Wood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415248213
Category: Industrial engineers
Page: 504
View: 393
Following the volumes on Henri Fayol, this next mini-set in the series focuses on F.W. Taylor, the initiator of "scientific management". Taylor set out to transform what had previously been a crude art form in to a firm body of knowledge.
These inventions made it possible for the first time to efficiently manage bees and to remove frames from a hive either to inspect or to extract honey. Previous hives were often completely destroyed to obtain the honey collected by the ...
Author: Robert Owen
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
ISBN: 9781775594734
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 368
View: 928
The Australian Beekeeping Manual is the most comprehensive reference for both novice and experienced beekeepers in Australia. The accessible yet detailed text, supported by over 350 full-colour photographs and illustrations, covers all the key areas, including the beekeeping equipment needed, how to obtain bees, where to locate them in the garden, and the basics of colony management. There are also in-depth chapters on the lifecycle of the honey bee, extracting honey, creating a bee-friendly garden, entering honey in competitions, pests and diseases, native bees, and rearing queens. A feature of this 2nd edition is the addition of a new chapter on the Flow Hive. The result is an invaluable beekeeping resource that will be referred to time and again, and which can be taken out to the hive for use as an immediate step-by-step guide or read at leisure.
levels of hive management. Top-bar hives are a simple investment, and it is quite possible to build one, get bees to inhabit it, and never look inside it again. By doing this, one has embarked on the most elemental form of beekeeping by ...
Author: Les Crowder
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 9781603584616
Category: Nature
Page: 175
View: 126
Discusses top-bar hives as an organic approach to raising bees without antibiotics, miticides, and other chemicals, and reviews the basics of beekeeping and how to manage the hive through the seasons.
Hive management is a term used in beekeeping. The term describes all the intervention techniques a beekeeper may perform to ensure hive survival and to maximize hive production. Hive management techniques vary widely depending on the ...
Box hives require a significant capital investment, more labour time in hive management and pose problems of pest management compared to bark hives. Cheap and easy to make from locally available materials, bark hives need minimal ...
Author: E. N. Chidumayo
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 9781849776547
Category: Social Science
Page: 305
View: 806
The dry forests and woodlands of Sub-Saharan Africa are major ecosystems, with a broad range of strong economic and cultural incentives for keeping them intact. However, few people are aware of their importance, compared to tropical rainforests, despite them being home to more than half of the continent's population. This unique book brings together scientific knowledge on this topic from East, West, and Southern Africa and describes the relationships between forests, woodlands, people and their livelihoods. Dry forest is defined as vegetation dominated by woody plants, primarily trees, the canopy of which covers more than 10 per cent of the ground surface, occurring in climates with a dry season of three months or more. This broad definition - wider than those used by many authors - incorporates vegetation types commonly termed woodland, shrubland, thicket, savanna, wooded grassland, as well as dry forest in its strict sense. The book provides a comparative analysis of management experiences from the different geographic regions, emphasizing the need to balance the utilization of dry forests and woodland products between current and future human needs. Further, the book explores the techniques and strategies that can be deployed to improve the management of African dry forests and woodlands for the benefit of all, but more importantly, the communities that live off these vegetation formations. Thus, the book lays a foundation for improving the management of dry forests and woodlands for the wide range of products and services they provide.
Common Sense Natural Beekeeping teaches aspiring as well as experienced beekeepers how to keep their bees healthy and productive without depending on unnatural chemical or human intervention.
The bee-keeper becomes the manager of a wider bee system rather than only focusing attention on individual hive management. Such a system of perennial “bee reservoirs” with seasonal hives was advocated for use in Kenya by Nightingale ...
Author: Roger Blench
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135434168
Category: Social Science
Page: 568
View: 144
This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins of African livestock, placing Africa as one of the world centres for animal domestication. With sections on archaeology, genetics, linguistics and ethnography, this collection contains over twenty contributions from the field's foremost experts and provides fully illustrated, never before published data, and extensive bibliographies.