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With the gift buying season coming up can anyone recommend a decent all-singing all-dancing book that will cover plant pollination, basic flower botany and stuff like that? I'd like to be able to dissect different flowers, identify the different parts and generally marvel at how the whole...

Long story short - a member of our assoc has been given a skep containing an established colony of bees which are living in it in the 'old fashioned' way. The original owner captured a swarm in it and just flipped the skep over, raised one edge and let the bees install themselves in it. The...

I am becoming more and more interested in the subject of bee breeding and wonder of anyone can recommend a reasonably priced, simple, entry level book on the subject. Is there a 'Bees and Honey' equivalent about it all? I'm not so much after the 'hands on' queen producing methods, more a...