Good Nutrition - Good Bees

David Aston, Sally Bucknall

• Publisher: Northern Bee Books
• Year: 2021
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9781914934025
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 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
• 17. Key nutrients required for growth / reproduction & existence
• 18. Metamorphosis and aspects of the physiological & nutritional requirements of each caste thoughout the individual’s life cycle
• 19. Gross nutritional requirements of the honey bee colony during its annual cycle: Carbohydrates
• 20. The gross nutritional requirements of the honey bee colony during its annual cycle: protein
• 21. The honey bee gut (micro) biome – an introduction
• 22. Bee health, vitality and nutrition
• 23. Bee diseases, pests, other stresssors and nutrition
• 24. Phenology & Pollination
• 25. Plant and flower structure
• 26. What we understand honey bees know about flowers
• 27. The hoarding instinct
• 28. Honey bee foraging
• 29. Landscape, land use and forage
• 30. The plant palette in the garden and pollinators
• 31. Hedgerows and boundaries and screening
• 32. Roadside Verge Management
• 33. Gardeners and their grass (‘lawns’)
• 34. Trees and shrubs
• 35. British floral sources considered to be of importance to the honey bee and their flowering periods
• 36. Some likely effects of climate change on species change and flowering times in plants visited by honey bees
• 37. Archaeotypes, neophytes and invasive non-native species
• 38. Land management and its impact on forage availability for honey bees throughout the year
• 39. The feeding of honey bee colonies – options available
• 40. Types of sugar feeders
• 41. Sugars in the form of fondant and candy
• 42. Protein - through the feeding of pollen supplements or substitutes
• 43. Pollen / protein supplements with / without fondant
• 44. Other Supplementation
• 45. Current supplementary feeding practices in England and Wales
• 46. Beekeeping strategy considerations for meeting colony nutritional needs throughout the year
• 47. Overwinter colony survival
• 48. During the winter until early spring
• 49. The spring expansion
• 50. Early and mid summer
• 51. Late summer / autumn
• 52. For colony consolidation before onset of winter
• 53. When drawing foundation
• 54. When queen rearing
• 55. Preparing colonies for pollination services
• 56. Feeding nuclei, small swarms, queen mating and small colonies
• 57. Emergency feeding
• 58. Hive hygiene
• 59. So what is in store for our honey bees in the future?
• 60. Conservation agriculture
• 61. Implications for decision makers
• 62. In conclusion
• References
• Annex I
• Annex II