Best book on Queen Rearing

[Poly Hive]

Nice ones... some good chuckles here over their choices.

PH

 

[Ely]

Sorry, I got lost and confused. I totally forgot there was a queen rearing section, I'm so used to logging into the general section. I'll have a read of your thread polyhive, although I do tend to struggle reading large amounts on a laptop screen, eyes get tired. I as surprised at the lack of simple books on the subject too.

You probably need a substantial amount of hives for better results in queen rearing don't you?

 

[BeeJayBee]

Hesiod. Works and Days.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hesiod/works.htm

Thanks for that

Sow Parsley on Good Friday?

Have you read the Varro, De Re Rustica? Translation here http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Varro/de_Re_Rustica/3*.html

Bees/apiculture starts at Para 16.

 

[ladaok]

I think Cook worked with Harry Cloake here in NZ and took a lot of Harry's ideas back to the UK. ...whether he modified Harry's technique to any advantage or corrupted them to your disadvantage... who knows

 

[TooBee...]

Thanks for that

Sow Parsley on Good Friday?

Have you read the Varro, De Re Rustica? Translation here http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Varro/de_Re_Rustica/3*.html

Bees/apiculture starts at Para 16.

"In the first place, bees are produced partly from bees, and partly from the rotted carcass of a bullock. And so Archelaus, in an epigram, says that they are 'the roaming children of a dead cow' "

- beekeeping has come a long way from the ancients!

 

[B+.]

In German but very good books

"Aufzucht und Verwendung von Koniginnen" (Rearing & use of queen bees) - Friedrich-Karl Tiesler, Evea Englert [Buschhausen, 2015], ISBN: 978-3-9815547-79
Supported by the IWF video (in English) "C1801 Rearing of queen bees"
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyzAS5eZ2xA)

"Selection bei der Hongibiene" (Selection of the honey bee) - Friedrich-Karl Tiesler, Kaspar Bienefeld, Ralph Buchler [Buschhausen, 2016], ISBN: 978-3-946030-45-4
Supported by the IWF videos (in English) "C13136 Selection of the honey bee - honey yield and behaviour" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm7RqXJD4_w0 and "C13137 Selection of the honey bee - Aiming for vitality" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCcbj1Gv9UM)

 

[DanBee]

"In the first place, bees are produced partly from bees, and partly from the rotted carcass of a bullock. And so Archelaus, in an epigram, says that they are 'the roaming children of a dead cow' "

- beekeeping has come a long way from the ancients!

 

[DanBee]

I think Cook worked with Harry Cloake here in NZ and took a lot of Harry's ideas back to the UK. ...whether he modified Harry's technique to any advantage or corrupted them to your disadvantage... who knows

An interesting exchange here between Dave Cushman and Harry Cloake's son.