Natural Beekeeping
Subtitle: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture
Contributors: Gary Paul Nabhan (Foreword)
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: June 13, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781933392080
Subjects: Apiculture (beekeeping); Nature; Nature/Ecology; Insects & Spiders; Nature / General; Bee culture; Organic farming
First sentence: In "Natural Beekeeping," Ross Conrad takes us on a journey, from his initially casual, coincidental involvement with honey bees as part-time wage work to his multifaceted engagement with these colonial creatures as collaborators in a struggle to keep the world we live in productive, safe, and healthy.
Table of contents: value: Foreword; value: Preface; value: Chapter 1: Why Organic Beekeeping?; value: Chapter 2: Working with the Hive; value: Chapter 3: Hive Management; value: Chapter 4: Genetics and Breeding; value: Chapter 5: Parasitic Mites; value: Chapter 6: Insect Pests; value: Chapter 7: Four-Legged and Feathered Pests; value: Chapter 8: Environmental and Human Threats; value: Chapter 9: Hive Diseases; value: Chapter 10: The Honey Harvest; value: Chapter 11: Organics and the Evolution of Beekeeping; value: Afterword; value: Glossary; value: Resources; value: Index