A very important book on an often overlooked subject area – the role of good nutrition in honey bee biology.
This husband and wife team delve into the importance of the pollinator species to man’s survival and how the functioning of the world’s ecosystems is recognised. Environmental and other stressors have taken their toll on many pollinator species and their abundance.
The European Honey bee (Apis mellifera) and man have had a long mutually beneficial relationship and it is vital that this continues.
Like all organisms, honey bees need food and shelter to ensure their survival and ability to thrive. A key factor in achieving this is the understanding of the role of good nutrition in honey bee biology.
This book considers the role of good nutrition for honey bees in the British Isles and the implications of these requirements for beekeepers and their beekeeping management techniques and for those who manage land on which forage for honey bees and other pollinators might be grown.
Зміст
1. The British Isles – and their climates
2. A short history of the honey bee in the British Isles
3. Human relationships with the honey bee in the British Isles today
4. Honey bees – domesticated or semi-domesticated?
5. Beekeeping – applied honey bee biology
6. Recent history and current status of beekeeping in England and Wales
7. The differences between hunger, malnutrition and starvation
8. The role of the beekeeper in understanding the honey bee colony and factors affecting the species’ survival
9. The honey bee colony structure – a superorganism – the fundamentals
10. Wild honey bee colonies
11. Honey bee colony life cycle
12. Optimum colony size
13. The composition of a honey bee colony
14. Some important aspects of insect and honey bee structures and physiology – with respect to nutrition
15. Honey bee pheromones and their role in nutrition
16. Honey bee hormones and their role in nutrition…
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Про автора
SALLY BUCKNALL, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., CBiol. is a biologist and environmentalist. She has been a Trustee and Chair of Trustees for the charity Garden Organic (Henry Doubleday Research Association, HDRA). This husband and wife team have published two other books.
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