Common Sense Natural Beekeeping
Sustainable, Bee-Friendly Techniques to Help Your Hives Survive and Thrive
Kim Flottum, Stephanie Bruneau
- 160 páginas
- English
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Common Sense Natural Beekeeping
Sustainable, Bee-Friendly Techniques to Help Your Hives Survive and Thrive
Kim Flottum, Stephanie Bruneau
Información del libro
With Common Sense Natural Beekeeping, learn to keep bees sustainably with limited chemicalor human intervention.
Today's bees face unprecedented challenges. Chemical treatments for pests like the ubiquitous and deadlyvarroa mitehave become standard even as resistance to such treatments grows and evidence suggests the chemical treatments themselves are contributing to the widely discussedColony Collapse Disorder.
Common Sense Natural Beekeeping offers beekeepers a different choice. Based on expert advice from Kim Flottom, editor emeritus of Bee Culture magazine and best-selling author of The Backyard Beekeeper, this book teaches holistic, sensible alternatives to conventional apiary practices, and includes:
- Lessons from the way bees live in the wild
- Management strategies that respect the natural intelligence of the bee
- Hive design elements that promote colony health and resilience
- Case studies highlighting successful natural beekeepers from around the world
Beekeepers today have myriad choices to make that affect their bees' healthand productivity. From housing to nutrition, including pests and diseases, Common Sense Natural Beekeeping introduces sustainable alternatives for natural hive management.
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SECTION I
Home Sweet Home
- Chapter 1 examines where bees choose to live when the choice is theirs. We’ll discuss the preferences of wild honey bees and the properties of their chosen nest sites.
- Chapter 2 reviews several of the models available for beekeepers to use as managed hives. We’ll consider each from the perspective of the Bee.
- Chapter 3 delves into hive design elements beyond hive type, including hive placement.