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Zambian beekeeping handbook

by Bernhard and Renate Clauss.

Beekeeping Division of the Forestry Department, Zambia (1991) 108 pp. Paperback.

Available from IBRA price to be announced.

This an A4 size handbook prepared and printed in Zambia. It will be of great value to all those who seek to encourage beekeeping in resource-poor areas of Africa. It is full of practical “hands on” information. It is written in style that is easy-to-read and encouraging. It gives excellent advice on handling bees. [t is extremely well illustrated. It contains details of many different types of hive, traditional and modern. It provides sound information of exactly the type needed where there are few resources, and where existing vegetation and honey bees are precious. It will become classic text!

Bees and beekeeping in the North West Province of Zambia.

Report on beekeeping survey by Bernhard Clauss.

Forest Department-IRDP (1992) 168 pp. Paperback. Available from IBRA price to be announced

This report is the result of three and a half year beekeeping survey of Zambia’s North Western Province. Every page is packed with carefully researched information, and the result is a comprehensive and unique description of forest beekeeping: the bee flora involved, the honey bees involved, traditional practices recent hive trials and resultant comparisons between new and old technologies, marketing, difficulties facing beekeepers, and concerns for the future. The Appendix provides new and valuable data on bee plants and flowering calendars.

In the closing page of this book, Bernhard Clauss makes plea which should be considered by all who seek to teach or learn beekeeping: Any certificate in beekeeping should be granted strictly along guidelines similar to driving test: nobody can qualify for a driver's licence if he/she fails to pass the practical part of it...

Hive management

by Richard E Bonney.

Blandford (1992) 152 pp. Paperback. Available from IBRA price £10.50.

This book does not start at the absolute beginning, describing items of beekeeping equipment and explaining the difference between queen, drone and worker. Instead it starts at the beginning of hive management, for example explaining why bees swarm, what happens during swarming, steps the beekeeper can take to prevent bees swarming, and what to do when they swarm anyway! It provides the reader with clear understanding of the reasons behind routine beekeeping practices.

Richard Bonney is beekeeper in the USA, and his text relates to frame hive beekeeping with Apis mellifera.

Beekeeping in the tropics

by P Segeren, V Mulder, J Beetsma and R Sommeijer.

Agrodok 32. Published by Agromisa, (1991) 3rd revised edition. 83 pp. Paperback

Available from Agromisa in English and French for Dfl7.50 excluding postage. Inhabitants of ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific).

This Agrodok booklet gives information on how to work with cavity-nesting honey bees. The booklet stresses the importance of starting at local level and only later, with growing experience, trying to improve the local system of beekeeping or even trying to introduce new systems.

A lot of information is packed into this booklet. [t starts with background detail of bees, honey bee colony and the importance of a honey and wax production.

Subsequent chapters address bee handling, discussion and description of different hive types, feeding and care of bees, and how to establish colonies.

Final chapters describe how to harvest and process honey, wax and pollen. Diseases are described briefly and further notes are given in four appendices.

Proceedings of the International Symposium on recent research in bee pathology

edited by W Ritter, associate editors O van Laere, F Jacobs, L de Wael.

Merelbeke, Belgium; State Research Station for Nematology and Entomology for Apimondia (1991) 223 pp. Paperback.

Available from IBRA price £17.50

The full texts of 51 papers reporting recent research on all aspects of diseases and parasitism, caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and mites.

This specialist symposium was attended by experts from every continent who are involved with the study of bee diseases, and the proceedings from their meeting provide a concise account of current research findings. Good

Biodiversity of honey bees in Thailand

compiled by Siriwat Wongsiri, Thomas E Rinderer and H Allen Sylvester.

Bee Biology Research Unit, Research Affairs Division, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (1992} 112 pp. Paperback.

Available from IBRA price to be announced.

Reprints of publications by staff and students of the Bee Biology Research Unit and visiting researchers from 1987 to 1990. The texts of 17 papers are given pure and and applied biology relating to asian honey bees, introduced Apis mellifera and mites of honey bees.

Abstracts of papers and bibliography on Asian honey bees 1979-1991

published by Bee Biology Research Unit, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, in co- operation with IBRA (1992) 203 pp. Paperback.

Available from IBRA price to be announced.

The first part of this publication contains the abstracts of 115 papers accepted for presentation at the recent International Conference on the asian honey bees and bee mites (see pages 4 and 5 of this edition).

The second part is bibliography prepared by Eva Crane and Penelope Walker. This bibliography lists references for 515 items published between 1979 and 1991 relating to asian honey bees.

Non-wood forest products: the way ahead

published by FAO

FAO Forestry Paper 97 (1991) 37 pp. Paperback.

Available from FAO Sales Agents or directly from Distribution and Sales Section, FAO, Italy.

This publication has been prepared by Gerald Wickens of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, UK to serve as guide to issues regarding non-wood forest products. Activities aiming for sustainable use of non-wood forest products should be encouraged as we strive for the conservation and wise use of forest resources.

Beekeeping in Malaysia: pollen atlas

This book was reviewed in Beekeeping and Development 20.

The book is now available from IBRA at a new price of £15.00

Asian honey bees

Eight postcards produced by the Institute of Honey Bee Science, Tamagawa University, Japan (1992).

Available from IBRA price £1.50.

Postcards featuring top quality colour pictures of all the described asian honey bee. species: Apis andreniformis, Apis cerana indica, Apis cerana japonica, Apis dorsata, Apis florea, Apis koschevnikovi, and Apis laboriosa

The Bee Catalogue: publications from IBRA

compiled by Nina Gibson and Helen Jackson.

IBRA (1992) 36pp. Paperback.

Available from IBRA price £1 including postage (free to IBRA Members).

A new catalogue of over 300 publications currently available for purchase from IBRA, including visual aids This Catalogue also serves as a useful and quick guide to publications in print, and is essential for anyone preparing a small or large library of bee books.

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