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Ethiopian honeybee flora: some 500 common herbs, shrubs and trees by Reinhard Fichtl and Admasu Addi
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Margraf Verlag, Weikersheim, Germany (1994) 510 pages and 600 colour photographs. Paperback. Available from Bees for Development (see Books to
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There are excellent colour photographs showing flowers of each of the 500 plants presented, often with honeybees foraging upon them. Each entry gives information about the plant itself, its flowering period and value to bees. Some of the plants occur throughout the tropics and subtropics, and others even more widely as crop or ornamental plants. There is a good description of the current status of beekeeping in Ethiopia too, even including the method for making Tej, the important beverage of traditional social gatherings. This book is expensive but will make an interesting and valuable addition to beekeepers’ libraries.
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Beeswax crafting Wicwas Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, USA (1993) 126 pages. Hardback. Available from Bees for Development (see Books to Buy) price 15.75
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This new flora has by now been mentioned several times in Beekeeping & Development, but we make no apology for this as it is one of the best produced guides to bee plants yet published. One hundred trees and 400 herbs and shrubs chosen from the 7000 or so flowering plants found in Ethiopia represent the wide range of plants that are important to bees.
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using beeswax. Introductory chapters explain what beeswax is, its chemical and physical properties and how to process it. A range of recipes for making cosmetics and ointments is given, although some of the ingredients may be hard to locate A number of art processes are described and the techniques of batik and encaustic art (painting with molten wax) are detailed. Elizabeth Duffin illustrates precisely her techniques for making wax flowers: these always attract attention and interest at beekeeping exhibits, showing the wide diversity of uses for beeswax. A separate chapter explains, with enough information to help the beginner get started, the different candle-making techniques. Plans are given for building a solar-wax extractor and a simple wax tank.
Promotion of non-wood forest produce through social forestry G Hedge and J N Daniel edited by N
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Development Research Foundation, Pune, India
(1993) 257 pages. Paperback. Available from Bees for Development (see Books to Buy) price 10.00
The cover of this book illustrates very well it content. The book contains 39 talks given or. Multi-Purpose Tree Species, giving information on some of the less well-known products harvested from trees. One paper relates to beekeeping, others discuss all sorts of products: medicines, cosmetics, pesticides, gums, resins, dyes, spices and oils. Many of these commodities are familiar to rural people but their uses have not been documented by researchers. There is plenty of fascinating detail in this rather modest publication. For example, one author from South India describes how almost everyone in a village of 386 houses is employed for three months of every year in making plates and cups from the leaves of Butea monosperma ‘Flame of the forest’ trees.
Miel de abejas (Bee Honey) by Patricia
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Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela (1993)
97 pages. Paperback. In Spanish Available from: Gloria Somoza, Consejo de Publicaciones Universidad de Los Andes, Av Andrés Bello, La Parroquia, Mérida,
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This book is a useful manual for those interested in the chemical composition and physical properties of honeybee honey It gives a general introduction to the origin, different types and uses of honeys. It describes analytical techniques to evaluate the quality of honeys, sensorial (colour and flavour determination) and physicochemical analysis (moisture, index of refractometry, pH, minerals, reducing sugars, HMF, diastase and nitrogen). It provides a general introduction to mellisopalynological analysis. It also includes the results of the analysis of 500 Venezuelan honey samples. Rogel Villanueva
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