BEEKEEPING & DEVELOPMENT
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THANKS FOR THE ARTICLE; Terms |
|
|
|
The grp has established 10 colonies of bees and hopes to reach its target of 20 by the end of the year
|
|
|
“Despite the drought that has affected flowers, we are harvesting a lot of honey. In May we harvested more than 200 kg and earned about 800 Zimbabwe dollars” said Mutekairi,
|
_
|
;
Source: Tanzanian Business Times |
used in Beekeeping & Development (edition 24 pages 8 and 9}; very useful for those of us who are not from beekeeping backgrounds. But a note on one of the definitions: Agroforestry: Agroforestry is a collective name for land-use systems and technologies. where woody perennials (trees, shrubs, palms, bamboos, etc) are deliberately used on the same land management unit as agricultural crops and/or animals. either in some form of spatial arrangement or temporal sequence. Lundgren, B (1982) The use of agroforestry to increase the productivity of tropical land. Nairobi, Kenya. converted
The important thing about agroforestry systems is that they are deliberate. This allows the disparate systems of shifting cultivation, alley cropping, Javanese home gardens, and the use of bees, fish and cattle, for example, to be compared and
contrasted.
WRITE WITH REGARD to your definition of the term “absconding” in your glossary of terms used in Beekeeping & {|
Development 24,
page 8. would like to suggest that a more comprehensive definition be provided for this term. would suggest that “absconding” be used to describe the condition in which all adult honey bees leave the nest or hive within a short period of time (within 24-48 hours} following the disturbance of that colony by wind, rain, sun, man, ant attack, honey badger attack or some other sudden disturbance. In this case, honey, pollen and brood may be left behind in the colony. |
|
Using this definition, “absconding”
and “migration” are mutually exclusive rather than “migration” being seen as a sub-category of “absconding” (the latter terminology is often used in literature from the USA).
Robert Paxton, Cardiff, “Beekeeping
|
;
UK
station tn Alboraz Mountains, Taleghan, |ran.
PHOTOGRAPH SENT BY ESMAEEL EMADIPGUT
~
S\
of two women who in different it is with sadness that we report the deaths : :
PI APICY, 4)
29
ways generously assisted the beekeeping world.
LaSY
|
—
'
4 L(AAA, So
|
|
'
CIN
1
|
|
_
!
APICU LTURAL ASSOCIATION |
1
|
|
The AAA Membership fee is $20 per year. This includes four issues of Beekeeping & Development and AAA Newsletter
_
|
' |
|
|
:
:
a
194, Japan.
|
AAA Chapters see Beekeeping & Development 24 page 6. For details
|
}
.
|
of
|
|
|
Inge Allen will be remembered by beekeepers throughout the world as the kind-hearted german lady who worked at IBRA for many years. Between 1966 and 1986 IBRA was based at Hill House near London. For the whole of this period Inge Allen worked for IBRA, taking her retirement when the Association moved to Cardiff in 1986. Inge maintained IBRA’s Library at Hill House and seemed able to instantly put her finger on any publication requested A beekeeper herself, Inge took great interest in the subject, had a tremendous store of knowledge, and enjoyed her work. She also took of much else at IBRA, answered telephone enquiries and generally cere maintained the happy and friendly atmosphere enjoyed by both staff and
Galton Dorothy Galton was a
:
;
Inge Allen
|
|
|
visitors.
|
supplements. People in countries where AAA pas 0 Or chapters (listed below), please sen local equivalent to your chapter. People In other send countries directly to ne science, Institute of920 Honeybee AAA Office, Machida-shi, Tokyo Tamagawa University, ;
|
|
|
|
lady with strong socialist views and a great interest Dorothy in Russia: her career was in Slavonic Studies at the University of London. She was also a beekeeper. She combined these interests, researching the history of beekeeping in Russia, providing IBRA with translations and writing a number of books. One of these postulated a widespread “civilisation of the bee” helping to form the languages of Eurasia from 10,000 BC or earlier. Dorothy Galton took great interest in Beekeeping & Development and supported our work (see her letter in our last edition). indeed beekeepers in Tanzania named an apiary in her honour after she of their problems. provided them with some assistance after reading . Dorothy Galton was 90 years of age when she died earlier this year the will be broadcast in 1993. it her BBC made a television programme about
ELEVEN
i
|
|
