In Issue 107

ISSUE No 107 June 2013

In this issue

Practical beekeeping – good beekeeping practice......................... 3

Beekeeping economics.................... 6

Honey industry in South Africa......... 9

Death of the bee tree........................ 9

EU Honey Directive.......................... 9

Practical beekeeping - straight combs in top-bar hives.............................. 10

More on Warré’s People’s Hive....... 13

Recent research............................. 14

Notice Board............................. 14,19

News around the World.................. 15

Look and Learn Ahead................... 16

Bookshelf....................................... 18

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A honey bee forages on a field of geraniums at the foot of the Martuljek mountains, Slovenia. Awareness of the need to protect all pollinators and their habitat is increasing: see this page and pages 14 and 15

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