In Issue 144

Issue 144 September 2022

Editorials

John Phipps and Nicola Bradbear .......... 4

Nature-based Beekeeping BfD

Nicola Bradbear and Janet Lowore, Bees for Development .......... 5

The Long, Downhill Road in Beekeeping

John Phipps, Greece .......... 8

“Don’t Call Me Honey!” Or: When ‘Honey is not ‘Honey’

Martin Kunz, Diversity Honeys Ltd., UK .......... 13

Honey Bee Pests

Varroa and Feral Bees: Which is the Villain? .......... 19

Asian Hornets .......... 19

Hornets still alive after over a day in a freezer - from Jersey Evening News .......... 19

Hornets still alive after over a day in a freezer - from Jersey Evening News .......... 19

Small Hive Beetle: Aethina tumida becomes a severe problem for beekeepers in Ghana’s Cashew Farms BfD

Stephen Adu, Giacomo Ciriello and Isaac Mbroh, Bees for Development .......... 20

Nature-based Beekeeping in Amhara, Ethiopia BfD

Janet Lowore, Programme Manager, Bees for Development, and Getsh Kassa, Bees for Development Ethiopia .......... 23

Beekeeping in Wulu, South Sudan BfD

Janet Lowore, Programme Manager, Bees for Development UK and Andrea Akol, Executive Director, Humanitarian Actors for Grassroots Initiative, Juba, South Sudan .......... 24

News Bites

In Memoriam Bill Turnbull, Patron of Bees for Development BfD .......... 26

More trees gained than lost BfD, World Resources Institute - wridigest@wri.org .......... 26

Skep Beekeeping

Looking to the Past to Look to the Future

Chris Park, UK .......... 27

Skeps Around the World: Examples of traditional hives created and used today in various parts of the world; Basketry and Weaving

John Phipps, Greece .......... 34

Treatment-Free Beekeeping: Friendship & Co-operation at Home and Across the Atlantic

Marcus Nilson, Sweden .......... 37

Apimondia International Congress, Istanbul, August 2022 BfD

Reports by Nicola Bradbear and Martin Kunz .......... 38

Book Reviews

The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka - review by Martin Kunz .......... 41

Hand Pollination In China: The Shadow Of The Future, Mariann Fercsik - review by John Phipps .......... 42

Events

BfD .......... 43

NBH ⬢

Natural Bee Husbandry magazine

A special issue incorporating Bees for Development Journal No. 144

John & Val Phipps, Editor & Sub Editor

Martin Kunz, Assistant Editor

The Bees for Development Team

Nicola Bradbear

Helen Jackson

Janet Lowore

Giacomo Ciriello

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Natural Bee Husbandry is published four times a year by Northern Bee Books, a trading name of Peacock Press Ltd.

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Cover photo: Bees flying around a Sun Hive, photo by Paul Spierings. (From Journey into Wonder, Alberta Papma, The Netherlands, NBH No 7, May 2018).