Honey and pollen flora of South-Eastern Australia

Honey and pollen flora of South-Eastern Australia
Title Honey and pollen flora of South-Eastern Australia PDF eBook
Author Dr. Douglas Somerville
Publisher NSW Agriculture
Pages 681
Release 2020-01-14
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 0760583625

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This PDF book is best viewed on a desktop or tablet, not a phone (due to the size of the pages). The quality of the book is best in the Play Books app, not through the Google Play web store and library. However please understand that the pages will be around 50% of the size of the hardcover print edition and may be easier to read when when zoomed in. The PDF can be saved offline, but can't be saved to your computer and opened in Adobe Acrobat, copied and shared, or printed in full. It will remain in the Google app or library. Understanding the biology of flora and its value to honey bees is the core foundation for successful beekeeping. Bees feed on nectar and pollen. No food equals no bees! The flowers on which bees forage have a major impact on stocking rates and the level of nutrition available to the colony, two subjects that need to be understood for a beekeeper to be successful. Whether a beekeeper owns one hive or a thousand, the principle is the same. Floral resources within Australia underpin so many systems and animal species. Building knowledge and understanding of what they are, and how they are adapting to a changing climate, is a critical field of scientific endeavour. This publication is part of the journey to focus on the value of plants to nectarivores and honey bees in particular. The result of over 30 years of research, it distils both scientific knowledge and the opinions of hundreds of beekeepers into a reference work that will be the cornerstone of floral understanding in apiculture for years to come. Contents Acknowledgements Preface What makes an ideal apiary site? Hive stocking rate Honey bee nutrition Star rating A note on flowering charts What’s in a name? Describing plants List families – genus/species Plant profiles Glossary Bibliography and references Websites Index

Honey and Pollen Flora of South-Eastern Australia

Honey and Pollen Flora of South-Eastern Australia
Title Honey and Pollen Flora of South-Eastern Australia PDF eBook
Author Douglus Somerville
Publisher
Pages
Release 2019-09-02
Genre
ISBN 9781760583422

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The Australian Beekeeping Manual

The Australian Beekeeping Manual
Title The Australian Beekeeping Manual PDF eBook
Author Robert Owen
Publisher Exisle Publishing
Pages 370
Release 2020-11
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 1775594734

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The Australian Beekeeping Manual is the most comprehensive reference for both novice and experienced beekeepers in Australia. The accessible yet detailed text, supported by over 350 full-colour photographs and illustrations, covers all the key areas, including the beekeeping equipment needed, how to obtain bees, where to locate them in the garden, and the basics of colony management. There are also in-depth chapters on the lifecycle of the honey bee, extracting honey, creating a bee-friendly garden, entering honey in competitions, pests and diseases, native bees, and rearing queens. A feature of this 2nd edition is the addition of a new chapter on the Flow Hive. The result is an invaluable beekeeping resource that will be referred to time and again, and which can be taken out to the hive for use as an immediate step-by-step guide or read at leisure.

Honey and Pollen Flora

Honey and Pollen Flora
Title Honey and Pollen Flora PDF eBook
Author Alan Clemson
Publisher ISBS
Pages 286
Release 1985
Genre Science
ISBN

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Pot-Honey

Pot-Honey
Title Pot-Honey PDF eBook
Author Patricia Vit
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 655
Release 2013-01-17
Genre Science
ISBN 146144960X

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The stingless bees are one of the most diverse, attractive, fascinating, conspicuous and useful of all the insect groups of the tropical world. This is a formidable and contentious claim but I believe it can be backed up. They are fifty times more species rich than the honey bees, the other tribe of highly eusocial bees. They are ubiquitous in the tropics and thrive in tropical cities. In rural areas, they nest in a diversity of sites and are found on the flowers of a broad diversity of crop plants. Their role in natural systems is barely studied but they almost certainly deserve that hallowed title of keystone species. They are popular with the general public and are greatly appreciated in zoos and gardens. The chapters of this book provide abundant further evidence of the ecological and economic importance of stingless bees.

The Tears of Re

The Tears of Re
Title The Tears of Re PDF eBook
Author Gene Kritsky
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 159
Release 2015-10-08
Genre Science
ISBN 0199361401

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According to Egyptian mythology, when the ancient Egyptian sun god Re cried, his tears turned into honey bees upon touching the ground. For this reason, the honey bee was sacrosanct in ancient Egyptian culture. From the art depicting bees on temple walls to the usage of beeswax as a healing ointment, the honey bee was a pervasive cultural motif in ancient Egypt because of its connection to the sun god Re. Gene Kritsky delivers a concise introduction of the relationship between the honey bee and ancient Egyptian culture, through the lenses of linguistics, archeology, religion, health, and economics. Kritsky delves into ancient Egypt's multifaceted society, and traces the importance of the honey bee in everything from death rituals to trade. In doing so, Kritsky brings new evidence to light of how advanced and fascinating the ancient Egyptians were. This richly illustrated work appeals to a broad range of interests. For archeology lovers, Kritsky delves into the archeological evidence of Egyptian beekeeping and discusses newly discovered tombs, as well as evidence of manmade hives. Linguists will be fascinated by Kritsky's discussion of the first documented written evidence of the honeybee hieroglyph. And anyone interested in ancient Egypt or ancient cultures in general will be intrigued by Kritsky's treatment of the first documented beekeepers. This book provides a unique social commentary of a community so far removed from modern humans chronologically speaking, and yet so fascinating because of the stunning advances their society made. Beekeeping is the latest evidence of how ahead of their times the Egyptians were, and the ensuing narrative is as captivating as every other aspect of ancient Egyptian culture.

Bee Agskills

Bee Agskills
Title Bee Agskills PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Laffan
Publisher
Pages
Release 2016
Genre TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
ISBN 9781742561806

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