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In Befriending Bumble Bees, you will learn how to raise your own bumble bee colonies. This step by step guide provides you with all the information you will need to find, capture, house, and feed the next generation of bumble bees.Bumble bees are formidable pollinators, pollinating crops such as tomatoes, cranberries, blueberries, and squash, in addition to native wildflowers. Enjoy the benefits these bees can provide to your gardens and crops while helping to support native ecosystems by encouraging populations of these amazing bees.An additional author is Marla Spivak, a MacArthur Fellow and McKnight Distinguished Professor in Entomology at the University of Minnesota.

Reprint of the 1955 book. This is the first general book of honey recipes to be published. The author researched ancient honey cookery and found best-known recipes were in use earlier than A.D. 1600. Honey is used to advantage in many kinds of cooking that ordinarily call for sugar, including with meat and vegetable recipes. Honey adds an unmistakable flavor and blends well with other ingredients. Despite its apparent stickness it makes beautifully smooth doughs when mixed with flour and cereals; bowls and hands come out clean, almost waxy.Recipes are groups into eight sections.

This starter queen rearing book is perfect for hobby and sideline beekeepers. Rearing Queen Honey Bees book includes work with mating in areas that have African bees. Clear and well illustrated in black and white. While this book does not include bee genetics and breeding, it is designed to help a person begin their queen rearing activities.

More than 150 years after L.L. Langstrothinvented the movable-comb hive andbrought beekeeping into the modernage, we can still learn from this historicbook. The original book, preserved in itsoriginal text and illustrations, is updatedand annotated by one of the foremostresearchers in apiculture, Dr. RogerHoopingarner. This book keeps alive, forfuture generations, beekeeping techniquesfrom the past and offers manylessons for modern beekeepers.Dr. Roger Hoopingarner, Michigan StateUniversity Professor Emeritus of Entomology,has specialized in Apiculturefor 65 years. His teaching, CooperativeExtension, and research interests in thebiology and management of the honeybee include seminal work in pollinationof orchard crops. He has been the author,or co-author, of numerous researcharticles on bee diseases, varroa populationdynamics and control, pollinationsystems, and more.

A review of 15 topics important to bees and beekeeping in the 21st century. Report of a symposium to honor Roger Hoopingarner at his retirement from Michigan State University. Reports of 15 research laboratories from around the world.

A book for all beekeepers and those thinking of starting a bee hive. How to obtain information about bees, what to avoid and which hive type to obtain. Review locating an apiary and what bee stock to use. Reviews sustainable bee biology and bee management. Ends with a detailed review of the advantages and disadvantages of biodynamic beekeeping.