Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, Caron & Connor

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Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping

Name: Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, Caron & Connor
Brand: NORTHERN BEE BOOKS
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Third edition with updated contents

Dewey Caron & Lawrence J. Connor

£100.00

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Wickwas Press (3rd ed. 2024)

Hardback / 480 Pages

ISBN 978-1-878075-62-8

First released in 1999, Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping is widely accepted as a major textbook of Apiculture (beekeeping). Universities use it to teach college students bee biology and beekeeping.

Beekeepers and bee clubs use it to teach other beekeepers.

It concentrates on the 'why', 'how' and 'when' of bee keeping. It explains bee and beekeeping basics in a manner meaningful to people who lack an extensive back ground in biology. Yet it is not oversimplified, and provides a meaningful source of beekeeping information for the informed beekeeper.

The Third Edition has been carefully edited, updated and expanded to 480 pages. New chapters have been added, as have colorful new graphics and photographs. The Glossary has also been expanded.

This comprehensive textbook easily replaces many beginner books while adding comprehensive details of bee biology essential to becoming a successful beekeeper and student of the honey bee.

Title page
Copyright, ISBN, Dedication, Acknowledgments
About the authors
Chapter Quick Finder
How to use this book

SECTION 1: BEE BIOLOGY

Introduction
1. Our insect ally
2. What is beekeeping?
3. Beekeeping - both science and art?
4. The real key
5. Human association with bees
6. Wasps, bees and warfare
7. Apiculture beginnings
8. Temperate versus tropical seasonality
9. Bee gums and skeps
10. Bees on the move
11. A new hive
12. Father of modern beekeeping
13. And today ...
14. Honey bee culture
15. Learning beekeeping
16. Are bees going extinct?
17. What are the factors in bee decline
18. Saving bees
19. Ten things to save bees and pollinators
20. Key terms
21. Discussion questions
22. Exercises
23. References
What's in a Name?
1. The classification system
2. Phylum Arthropoda
3. Classification of the honey bee
4. Class lnsecta
5. Order Hymenoptera
6. Superfamily Apoidea
7. Families of bees
8. Family Apidae
9. Bumble bees
10. Genus Apis
11. Subspecies of honey bees
12. Do honey bees predate Europeans in North America?
13. Hybrid bees
14. Improved bees
15. Varroa mite tolerant bees
16. Key terms
17. Discussion questions
18. Exercises
19. References
Sociality
1. Insect societies
2. Sociality in the Hymenoptera
3. Evolution of sociality
4. Relative stages of social interaction Eusocial
5. Character comparison Bees
6. Wasps
7. Ants
8. Why is sociality so common in Hymenoptera?
9. Control of stinging wasps /bees
10. Key terms
11. Discussion questions
12. Exercises
13. References
What is a Honey Bee?
1. Queen, drone, worker
2. Hive bees
3. Developmental time
4. Field bees
5. Immature bees or brood
6. Differentiation of queen and worker
7. Seeing is believing
8. Superorganism
9. Dead bees
10. Seasonality of brood and adult populations
11. Fat (fall) bees
12. Bee stewardship
13. Key terms
14. Discussion questions
15. Exercises
16. References
Anatomy
1. Three body regions
2. Exoskeleton and body hairs
3. Head
4. Mouth parts
5. Queen and drone head
6. Thorax
7. Abdomen
8. Bee senses
9. Digestive and excretory systems
10. Fat body
11. Nervous system
12. Circulatory system and hemolymph
13. Respiratory system
14. Reproductive structures
15. Sting structure
16. Gland systems
17. Gland and bee development
18. Additional queen and drone differences
19. Key terms
20. Discussion questions
21. Exercises
22. References
Physiology
1. The living honey bee
2. Honey bee nutrition and food ecology
3. Gut biome
4. Physiological changes in the labor force
5. Royal jelly
6. Nutrition's specific impact
7. Gas, liquid and temperature regulation
8. Thermal activity
9. Comb as an organ of the colony
10. Comb effect on bees
11. Key terms
12. Discussion question
13. Exercises
14. References
Pheromones
1. Chemical coordination
2. Pheromone communication
3. Queen pheromones
4. Queen substance spread
5. Percent of radioactive bees
6. Queen substance functions
7. Food transmission
8. Dufour gland
9. Tergal glands
10. Fecal pheromone
11. Alarm communications
12. Nasanov scent gland
13. Colony odor
14. Trail pheromones
15. Odor recognition
16. Brood and comb pheromones
17. Colony defense
18. Pheromones in dance language
19. Other pheromones
20. Stimulatory effect of comb/brood
21. Key terms Discussion questions
22. Exercises
23. References
Dance Language
1. Dance communications
2. Dance routines
3. The round dance
4. The wagtail dance
5. The sickle dance
6. Dance floor
7. Taste and smell
8. Dialects
9. Comparison of races
10. Additional recruitment dances
11. Accuracy of the dance information
12. Marking bees
13. Dance language controversy
14. Nest selection by honey bees
15. Looking for a home
16. Key terms
17. Discussion questions
18. Exercises
19. References
The Bee Nest
1. Colony dwelling
2. Beeswax comb
3. How bees measure cells
4. Nest organization
5. Human-made hives
6. The modern Langstroth beehive
7. Observation hives
8. Key terms
9. Discussion questions
10. Exercises
11. References
Queens
1. One queen, usually
2. Queen replacement (supersedure)
3. Bee sounds
4. Swarming
5. Absconding
6. Emergency queen replacement
7. Mating of queens
8. Massacre of the males
9. Drone nutrition for proper maturation
10. Key terms
11. Discussion questions
12. Exercises
13. References
Bee Botany
1. Foraging
2. Types of foragers
3. How bees discover flowers
4. Scout bees
5. Flower constancy
6. Foraging area
7. Foraging statistics
8. Nectar collection
9. Nectar secretion
10. Pollen foraging
11. Pollen collection
12. Water and plant resin collection
13. Optimum foraging strategy
14. Robbing behavior
15. The season through a bee's eye
16. Early season pollen sources
17. Mid to late spring
18. Fruit bloom
19. Early honey plants for surplus honey
20. Other late spring plants
21. Honey plants of June & July
22. Clovers, vetch & alfalfa
23. Summer
24. Cultivated crops
25. Around the home
26. Fall
27. Honeydew
28. Notes
29. Key terms
30. Discussion questions
31. Exercises
32. References

SECTION 2: BEEKEEPING

Getting Started
1. Starting requisites
2. When and how to start
3. What to expect
4. Personal equipment
5. The hive
6. Types of honey
7. Transferring bees
8. Obtaining bees
9. Bait hive basics
10. The apiary
11. Ten tips
12. What is the best apiary?
13. More information
14. Key terms
15. Discussion questions
16. Exercises
17. References
Management Basics
1. Basics of management
2. Wear a veil - use protective equipment
3. What tools to use
4. When to manipulate bees
5. How long to keep a hive open
6. Is it okay to inspect?
7. Bee stings
8. Types of reactions following stings
9. Queen spotting
10. Colony manipulations
11. Box 29 Smoker lighting
12. Reading the frames
13. Box 30 Hive inspection
14. Handling difficult colonies
15. Robbing
16. Feeding bees
17. Key terms
18. Discussion questions
19. Exercises
20. References
Fall & Winter
1. In the beehive
2. Fall
3. Box 32 The winter cluster
4. Late fall-winter
5. Why colonies die over winter
6. Managing the overwintering colony
7. In summary
8. Key terms
9. Discussion questions
10. Exercises
11. References
Spring
1. Spring management
2. Spring
3. Water for bees
4. First spring inspection
5. Stimulating weak colonies
6. Box 34 The swarming instinct
7. Management for spring nectar flow Box
8. Manage for success
9. Preventing bee swarms
10. Swarm control
11. Doolittle increase
12. Making divides and increase nuclei hives
13. Late spring
14. Key terms
15. Discussion questions
16. Exercises
17. References
Honey Production
1. The honey harvest
2. Presence of nectar-secreting plants
3. Weather suitable for nectar secretion and gathering
4. Peak population for the nectar flow
5. Physical ability of the bees and the 'morale' of the colony
6. Crowing degree days
7. The work of honey production
8. Pre-flow management
9. Nectar flow management
10. Supering
11. Drawing foundation
12. Extracting
13. Removing bees from supers
14. Honey in the comb
15. Destruct harvest
16. Settling and packaging
17. Non-flow summer management
18. Key terms
19. Discussion questions
20. Exercises
21. References
Honey & Other Products
1. Honey & hive products
2. What is honey?
3. What can go wrong?
4. Kinds of honey
5. Fine crystallization
6. Other sources of honey
7. Uses of honey
8. Beeswax
9. Comb honey
10. Pollen
11. Royal jelly
12. Bee brood
13. Bees as food
14. Propolis
15. Venom
16. Live bees
17. Mead (honey wine)
18. Other ways to make money with bees
19. Key terms
20. Discussion questions
21. Exercises
22. References
Queen & Drone Rearing
1. Queen & drone rearing
2. Raising queens and drones
3. When to raise queens
4. How to raise queens on a small scale
5. Using the Cloake board
6. Graftless cell production
7. Drone production & manipulations
8. Making queens
9. Mating control
10. Queen introduction
11. Key terms
12. Discussion questions
13. Exercises
14. References
Nucleus Colonies
1. Nucleus colonies
2. Making nuclei
3. Other methods to make increase hives
4. Dividing spring colonies to make nuclei and reduce swarming
5. Mid-Spring and summer nuclei
6. Fall increase
7. Overwintering nucleus colonies
8. Box 46 Doolittle increase
9. Key terms
10. Discussion questions
11. Exercises
12. References
Pollination
1. Pollination
2. Pollinating agents
3. Insect pollination
4. Pollinating bees
5. Conditioning/artificial attracting bees
6. Managing bee colonies for pollination
7. One colony per acre
8. Moving bee colonies
9. Improving pollination results
10. Pollination of specific crops
11. Small fruit pollination
12. Key terms
13. Discussion questions
14. Exercises
15. References
Bee Mites
1. Bee mites
2. Mite-related disorders
3. Honey bee tracheal mites
4. Varroa mite
5. Sampling for varroa mites
6. Parasitic Mite Brood Syndrome
7. Colony collapse disorder
8. Pesticide succession for varroa mite control
9. Key terms
10. Discussion question
11. Exercise
12. References
Diseases
1. Brood diseases
2. Brood problem?
3. Going to the dogs
4. Adult diseases
5. Key terms
6. Discussion questions
7. Exercises
8. References
Pests
1. Pests
2. Pesticides
3. Newest developments
4. Pesticide poisoning symptoms
5. Conditions confused with disease Key terms
6. Discussion questions
7. Exercises
8. References

Glossary
Index

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