Beekeepers’ Guide for Pollen Identification of Honey, El-Labban
£80.00
Beekeepers’ Guide for Pollen Identification of Honey
£80.00
This is a practical book written in a simple manner to make it understandable for beekeepers while still maintaining the principles and rules of pollen identification in honey. It also contains valuable information for expert melissopalynologists. It is designed after an intensive work in field observation of bee foraging, preparation & photographing pollen of the observed flora, searching in hundreds of publications & references from many countries around the world about their bee forage plants and pollen spectrum of their honeys as well as examining several honey samples from different regions around the world.
This book is to satisfy the growing interest among beekeepers in learning how to identify the plant sources of their honey. The increasing number of urban beekeepers who practice beekeeping as a hobby also enhance the interests of learning pollen identification of honey.
The chapters in this book are organised to smoothly graduate a beginner in this science from the easiest level to the advanced level with a coloured explanation of pictures. This will enhance understanding of the description of the apparatus and the procedures of pollen identification in honey.
The book contains coloured pollen pictures of 494 plant species organised in a way that facilitates matching them with the examined pollen in honey. Beside each pollen picture there is a picture of the flower source of this pollen and a map that shows the approximate plant distribution around the world.
Finally, this work is a participation from a man with a goal that should be common to all humanity generations, which is the protection of nature.
VIEW Contents
- Introduction: What are the benefits of identification of the botanical (plant) origin of honey?
- Pollen the Identity Marker of Plants in Honey
- Scientific Nomenclature of Plants
- Pollen Morphology
- Honeydew Elements
- Apparatus & Materials for Honey Identification
- Procedure of Preparation of the Honey Pollen Slide
- Examination & Pollen Identification of Honey
- Pollen Grains & (HDE) Counting
- Pollen Representativeness in Honey
- Physical Characteristics of Some Unifloral Honeys
- How to Match the Examined Pollen of Your Honey Sample With Pollen Pictures in This Book
- Pollen Pictures of bee Forage Plants
- Pollinia Producing Plants
- Index of plants scientific names
- Index of plants common names
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