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Keeping bees with a smile : principles and practice of natural beekeeping /
"The second edition of bestselling Keeping Bees with a Smile shows beginner and practicing beekeepers how to attract local bee swarms, keep bees healthy and productive, build simple bee-friendly hives, and harvest honey without stressing bees. Chock-full of techniques for natural beekeeping.&qu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Ruso |
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Gabriola Island, BC, Canada :
New Society Publishers,
[2020]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword--The bee book that makes sense : a roadmap to natural beekeeping
- pt. 1. A path to natural apiculture; A brief introduction
- How it all got started
- A small side note
- The industrial and natural approaches
- The bee colony's intelligence
- The goals of this book
- The tree hollow as the bees' natural home
- Some useful facts about comb
- The bee colony's developmental cycle
- A year in the life of a bee colony
- A word or two on wintering
- The ideal comb : how deep is deep enough?
- Winter ventilation of the beehive
- Bee races
- The European dark bee
- Bee diseases
- Symbiosis in nature (A philosophical digression)
- Bees and their enemies
- A bit of history
- The history of the frame
- Modern systems of beekeeping
- Bees in the industrial hive
- A word or two about swarming
- "Little to smile about"
- Is there a way out?
- The history of the horizontal hive with extra-deep frames
- The modern horizontal hive
- The horizontal hive withy extra-deep frames
- Using the extra-deep frame
- pt. 2. The practice of natural apiculture; A description of the horizontal hive with 25 extra-deep frames
- How to keep bees in a horizontal hive with extra-deep frames
- The central commandments of natural beekeeping
- A beekeeper's tasks in spring and summer
- Fall procedures : pulling honey and preparing for winter
- How to make extra-deep frames
- Brushstrokes
- How to capture a swarm in a swarm trap
- Responsibility
- Questions and answers
- Epilogue to Parts 1 and II.
- pt. 3. The finer points of natural beekeeping; Three years later
- Principles of natural beekeeping revisited
- The recipe for success in beekeeping
- Nectar resources
- Bee race and colony strength
- On the mean bees
- The queen
- The vital rhythms of a bee colony
- The death of bee colonies
- Various approaches to natural beekeeping
- More on supersedure
- Swarming
- How to collect a swarm
- The hive entrance
- Spring inspection of bee colonies
- Preparing for the main honeyflow
- The main honeyflow and the second half of summer
- Pulling honey and preparing for winter
- Questions and answers
- pt. 4. How bee colonies winter, and how to make wintering as successfull as possible; Introduction
- The facts : what you must know about the wintering process of an individual bee and the colony as a whole
- The colony's main job during the winter
- The thermal physics of a wintering colony
- Bee respiration in the winter cluster
- The role of water in the wintering process
- The search for the ideal home for a bee colony
- The physiological condition of a colony as it enters the winter period
- Winter reserves
- The location of winter reserves
- The European dark bee
- Wintering indoors
- Conclusions to Part IV
- Afterword
- Afterword to the second edition : natural beekeeping accessible to all
- Appendix 1. How to make swarm traps and capture swarms
- Appendix 2. How to produce, install, and unite swarms
- Appendix 3. Nucs : what to expect and how to handle them
- Appendix 4. Operations throughout the year
- Appendix 5. How to build a horizontal hive with extra-deep frames (Version 1)
- Appendix 6. How to build a horizontal hive with extra-deep frames (Version 2)
- Appendix 7. Lazutin hive plans (US version 4--new)
- Appendix 8. Summary handouts
- Glossary
- Index.