Bookshelf

The world history of beekeeping and honey hunting

Eva Crane 1999 720 pages. Hardback.

Available from Bees for Development price £90.00 including postage

Dr Eva Crane’s latest work explores in detail the history of the human use of bees. The details run to 57 chapters and 405 illustrations. As we go to press we have not yet seen a copy of the new book and a detailed review will be given in B&D52. We anticipate that, like all of Eva Crane's publications, this will be a meticulous work, making an important contribution to the literature.

Curative properties of bee pollen

Seyed Javad Saadatmand and Shahrooz Daraei 1998 180 pages. Paperback. IN ARABIC

Available from Bees for Development price £11.00 including posta

This book describes many years of research work investigating the properties of Pollen. The use of pollen is described including details of collection, drying and processing. Several chapters provide information on the chemical components and properties of pollen and its medical use. The book is completed with an extensive pollen atlas.

The classroom: beekeeping questions and answers

Jerry Hayes 1998 310 pages. Paperback.

Available from Bees for Development price £14.00 including postage

Questions and answers derived from the “Classroom” section of the American Bee Journal and the author's wide experience of beekeeping. Queen rearing, pollen, Varroa, beeswax, pesticides, equipment, honey, swarming, colony management, the list goes on: just about everything you can think to ask about frame hive beekeeping.

Beeswax and propolis for pleasure and profit

edited by Pamela Munn 1998 30 pages. Paperback.

Available from Bees for Development price £7.00 including postage

Information about the properties and merits of beeswax and propolis. The history of beeswax and of its refining, as well as extraction methods and uses are detailed in the first two chapters. Three further chapters cover the development of the commercial use of propolis, its use as medicine, and in making beekeeping more profitable.

Hunting for honey: adventures with the Rajis of Nepal

Eric Valli

1998 - 178 pages. Hardback.

Available from Bees for Development price £37.00 including postage

A fantastic new book! The Rajis are nomadic people living in the forests of Southern Nepal. For those people honey hunting is an important part of life, providing food, medicine and income. This large format book contains 120 of Eric Valli's amazing colour photographs combines with his excellent commentary. Together they give a moving and vivid impression of these honey hunters, who's way of life may not be continued much longer.

Beekeeping in Western Canada

edited by John Gruszka 1998 172 pages. Spiral-bound paperback.

Available from Bees for Development price £25.00 including postage

Provincial apiculturalists from each of the four western provinces of this major honey producing country have contributed their expertise to this book. In addition to the description of beekeeping in frame hives there is information about the honeybee colony; honey extraction; beeswax marketing, pollen and honey crops; honeybee health and pesticide poisoning. Five appendices provide a glossary of apicultural terms, further reading, beekeeping personnel in the Western Provinces, honey grading regulations for Canada and recommendation for feeding antibiotics.

Attractive colour photographs keep the reader’s attention throughout.

Bees in the Curriculum: Schools Pack

compiled and written by Sylvia Chamberlain on behalf of the British Beekeepers Association

1999 - 90 pages in an A4 hardback folder.

Available from Bees for Development price £30.00 including postage

This is a resource pack for schools, full of ideas to help school children learn about bees. There are separate resource pages for teachers, and information and activity sheets for pupils. The Pack is structured around six key areas: looking at minibeasts; the honeybee colony, honey, beeswax; beekeeping; and pollination. The Pack is full of illustrations including 38 colour photographs. Examples of activities for children include: Making honey buns; The waggle dance game; Investigations with candle burning; and Hexagons.

Bees and Beekeeping in India

D P Abrol 1997 - 450 pages. Paperback.

Available from Bees for Development price £25.00 including postage

This book provides a reference guide for beginners and experienced beekeepers. It includes an introduction to the history of beekeeping in India and the honeybee species Apis cerana, Apis dorsata, Apis florea and Apis mellifera.

All the required topics are covered: diseases and pests, bee flora and flowering periods, pollination and bees in agriculture. Comprehensive appendices provide advice on training, honey analysis, the costs of starting beekeeping, where to go for more information, and extensive author and subject indices.

Beekeeping with both Apis cerana and Apis meliifera

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