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Control of Varroa Mark Goodwin and Cliff van Eaton 2001 120 pages Available from Bees for Development
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The beehive metaphor
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Varroa tolerance, integrated pest management,
This neat text has been prepared by two of New Zealand's best bee scientists, and provides all the information that beekeepers need in an attractive and easy to digest style.
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James Fearnley 2000 172 pages Available from Bees for Development Price 11.00 Order code F110 It was while running a whole-food shop selling a variety of natural health products that James Fearnley first became interested in
propolis. Since then, as he says, propolis has emerged from the back shelves of health food shops to become a
major selling, high profile health product worth millions of dollars: the current world price is
century artists and architects were influenced by ideas of bees, their social organisation and nest structure.
Chapter 1 is a nicely written description of the western development of beekeeping, with interesting historical references. Chapter 2 ‘Working beehive, Mystical beehive’ focuses particularly on the artist and architect Guadi. Chapter 3 discusses other artists: Salvador Dali,
Joseph Beuys (a total bee-obsessive, who once spent three hours with his head covered in honey, explaining to dead hare the meaning of artistic creation), and the bee-related work of modern installation artists. Chapter 4 focuses on bee-inspired architects, especially Rudolf Steiner and Frank Lloyd Wright. In Chapter 5 the author
presents his argument that Le Corbusier was much influenced by the apian metaphor.
An excellent book full of ideas for people interested in bees and their wider influence on humans. Gaudi’s brother wrote one article in his whole lifetime. It was titled ‘Bees’ and, written in 1870, encouraged the promotion of apiculture: “It would be a good idea for our farmers to devote themselves to fostering and
increasing the number of honeycombs; all one has to do is place the hives in among an abundance of flowers and protect them from other creatures, and from the wind which can make them very tired”.
More honey in the kitchen
Joyce White
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This new book provides a useful guide to all aspects of propolis: what it is and how bees use it, its traditional and modern use by humans, its composition and biological activity, using propolis to treat human and other animal diseases, the types of propolis
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A follow-on to ‘Honey kitchen’ (described in this text contains over
130 recipes including honey as an ingredient for sweet and savoury food items. There are also recipes for furniture polish and shoe polish using beeswax and propolis. Recipes for dry and sweet mead (honey wine) are also included.
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References are given, as well as details of organisations and suppliers.
2001 65 pages Available from Bees for Development Price 10.00 Order code
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The Spanish author of The Beehive Metaphor shows how some late 19th and early 20th
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Bee propolis: natural healing from the hive
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and examples of methods used in some countries.
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Keeping up to date with all the literature being published on Varroa biology and control can be a major task. Here, combined in one volume are all the facts you need for now: enough Varroa biology, effects of Varroa, population growth, detection and evaluation, chemical control methods and resistance, bio-technical control methods, breeding for
Constructive beekeeping Norman Chapman
Juan Antonio Ramirez
A Bees for Development publication
This is
a unique book describing many of the practical jobs that beekeepers have to do that tend to be omitted or inadequately described in the standard beekeeping texts. The author is an enthusiastic and skilled beekeeper, and this book is full of useful tips. Here are just some of the practical projects described in this book - how to: make cardboard boxes
into honey jar carriers; make a slot scraper; nail frames correctly; make equipment to wire
frames; tidy up used frames; make and use ‘semi foundation’ (wax sheet embossed on one side only); make a foundation press; prepare fuel for
smoker; remove old combs; keep hive records; make a mouse guard; prepare honey for show; make a warming cabinet; a
filter beeswax; made mead. These and many other topics are covered.
A novel text that many beekeepers will appreciate and enjoy.
Parasite-host interactions between the Varroa mite and the honeybee Johan N M Calis farnetie-hos! interacthore between. _
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2001 144 pages Available from Dr Calis directly: Johan.Calis@Users.ento.wau.nl
There is a great need to control Varroa mite infestations of honeybees without using synthetic acaracides. This publication presents the research of Johan Calis into bio-technical control methods and the
susceptibility of honeybees to Varroa. Topics researched include the invasion behaviour of Varroa mites into broad cells, possibilities to use formic acid to kill mites ‘trapped’ in worker and drone brood, population modelling of Varroa mites and the varying biology of Varroa with different species and races of bees. This publication formed Johan Calis’s PhD thesis at Wageningen University.
