These queens will be well suited to their region, and can be used to breed further replacements. Information is given about mating, marking and caging queens. The production and use of package bees is described. There is a chapter on instrumental insemination, and a useful bibliography is also included. The book is clearly written, and very well illustrated.
Beekeepers often think that queen rearing is difficult.
This book should help to revise their opinion. In French, Italian and Spanish editions also. 14.00 Tropical Bees and the Environment edited by Makhdzir Mardan, Abdullah Sipat, Kamaruddin, Mohd Yusoff, Ruth Kiew and Mohd Mathieu Abdullah. Here is a valuable new book packed with interesting facts. It contains 34 essays by a range of international authors.