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his edition brings to the end another busy year for Bees for Development. We hope you have enjoyed reading the journal and look forward to hearing from the next century!

You can read the final insight by John Free on Pollination in the Tropics on page four. We offer you a brief resume of the last of this Millennium Apimondia Congresses on page three. ines

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COVER PICTURE Too nice to eat!

A honey cake in celebration of Apimondia 99. More on the Congress on page three.

At

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Dr Eva Crane’s new book

is available: details in Bookshelf.

of forthcoming events including the Fifth AAA Conference inThailand in and the Second Caribbean Beekeeping Congress in Nevis in August.

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Beekee in & Develo ment No 53

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A:uated Vancouver Convention Centre. .._,-his provided a fantastic arena for

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the XXXVI international beekeepin

eptember 1999 was the date,

Vancouver Canada the venue, for the biannual phenomenon that is

the Apimondia Congress.

Stringent planning and attention to detail

by the Local Organising Committee

meant that the Congress ran as

smoothly as Niagara Falls. The Congress

took place in the huge, spectacularly-

situated Vancouver Convention Centre.

This provides a fantastic arena for Api-Expo (the Congress trade display)

and halls for all the dozens of sessions, meetings and symposia that took place.

Apimondia Congresses are the venue for meeting apicultural scientists and

practitioners from every part of the world.

New faces

This year saw the retirement of the Apimondia President, Professor

Raymond Borneck from France after

15 years in office. We wish Professor

Borneck a "happy retirement"!

Congratulations to Mr Asger J0rgensen

from Denmark who now steps into the "hot seat" as Apimondia President.

Future plans

In two years' time the Apimondia

Congress will take place in Durban,

South Africa. To prepare for this meeting

a Working Group within the Apimondia

Standing Commission for Rural Development has been established to

co-ordinate preparations and material

for presentation. The Working Group will use Bees for Development's network for dissemination of

information. We want the next Congress

to focus on beekeeping as a way to stop poverty. Sessions will cover extension

and training, and beekeeping in the African continent, and there will be plenty of opportunity for fresh information input for people new to the field.

So you want to take part?

The Alternative Bee Space, Apimondia 99

During the week three separate sessions concerning Beekeeping for Rural

Development took place. These covered many aspects of our areas of interest

and brought together old and new friends to share experiences.

Many more informal, but just as

important discussions took place during

the week at the Alternative Bee Space

within Api-Expo. Materials explaining beekeeping from around the world attracted people away from the shiny stainless steel equipment. Here they

listened to the news from B&D correspondents and delegates talking about rural development, and how beekeeping is working in some of the poorest parts of the world.

You cannot begin too early to seek

funding for your own attendance at these Congresses. Make your interest known in good time to the Congress

Organisers (see Look Ahead for contact

addresses), and make sure you stick to

deadlines for submission of papers and

early registration dates. Once you have a paper accepted for presentation, you have a better chance of funding from local donors. Apimondia and

Bees for Development do not

have funding resources.

Awards

There are many categories of medals and awards at Apimondia Congresses.

Congratulations to all this year's winners. We are pleased to relate that at this Congress the Alternativ Bee Space organised by

Bees for Development

received a High Commendation.

Bees for Development acknowledges: CIDA (Canada), IDRC (Canada), Apimondia Local Organising Committee (Canada),Api Promo-GTZ,(Germany), Cera Rica Noda Co Ltd ljapan), Technical Centre for Rural and Agricultural Co-operation, CTA (The Netherlands), International Foundation for Science (Sweden), Tobago Apicu/tural Society, E H Thorne (Beehives) Ltd (United Kingdom), Freeman & Harding Ltd (United Kingdom), and The Commonwealth Foundation (United Kingdom).

Support from these organisations

enabled the participation of people from

developing countries, the Alternative

Bee Space display, and a reception for

Beekeeping for Rural Development on

the first evening of the Congress.

Bees for Development would like to

express sincere thanks for this support.

explanation please!

Apimondia is the World Federation of Beekeepers' Associations. The headquarters of the General Secretariat is in Rome, Italy and a printing house is in Bucharest, Romania. Every two years Apimondia convenes the International Beekeeping Congress held in a different country each time. In 200 I the venue is South Africa and 2003 in Slovenia.

Look Ahead in B&D brings you up-to-date information about all international meetings related to beekeeping and development.

The Bees for Devel_opment stand at Apimondia, with Colin Calver and M S Reddy

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John Free concludes his three part series (continued from B&D5 1) Ensuring pollination some societies the concept of pollination and the pollinating value of the honeybee is still not widely understood. In situations where individual plots are small it is unlikely that growers would appreciate any lack of adequate pollination, and even if they did so, it would not be economical for them to hire colonies. The presence of bees for pollination would depend on the grower keeping their own colonies, even if the bees fail to produce a honey In

crop, or, in others keeping colonies in the vicinity for honey production.

In such circumstances, government subsidies might be necessary to encourage beekeeping and so to increase the local populations of pollinators.

By contrast where the field size is large and the crops concentrated, it should be

economically possible for the grower to import colonies for pollination. Indeed in arid areas where irrigation is necessary for crop productivity, there may be no alternative sources of forage, and crop production may be entirely dependent on importing honeybee

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The honeybee species Apis mellifera and Apis cerana have long been kept for honey production. Techniques to manage these colonies already exist so these species can readily be introduced in large numbers as and where required.

Because there are often insufficient wild pollinating insects and because experiments have demonstrated the greater yield of many crops when adequately pollinated, the demand for honeybee colonies for pollination has greatly increased during recent years.

Indeed, in many countries the need already exceeds the supply.

The concentration of colonies required for pollination may well over-exploit the floral resources and the beekeeper will need to charge a fee that compensates for the lack of a honey crop. Overexploitation of an ecosystem by foraging honeybees will have a detrimental effect on the population of native pollinators; honeybees are usually competitively superior to wild pollinators, so the imported honeybee colonies should be removed directly sufficient pollination has been achieved.

Beekeeping for wax or honey will inevitably help pollination. But beekeeping must no longer be considered in the restricted roles of

honey and wax production. are difficulties associated with eeping for pollination in tropical ntries that do not occur in mperate lands. In several egions of Africa and Asia where

bees are kept there is dearth of during part of the year become weak or gnd. Such absconding is i daplonies orcen regular and apparently depends on rainfall but #e

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research is needed on the causal factors and ways to prevent it. It is important

for the beekeeper to know the locations of alternative sources of forage to which colonies may be moved during such dearth periods (and to have transport and equipment suitable for migratory beekeeping). Surveys to map the densit and distribution of bee plants could be undertaken with great benefit in many countries.

Plant breeding to increase production There are large differences in potential yield of many tropical fruit trees and shrubs; this suggests that the most effective long term way of increasing crops will be by selective plant breeding.

Jamaica, bagging flowers of papaya failed to decrease fruit set; but contrary to expectation, the fruit set of pistillate flowers was greater than that of hermaphrodite flowers. Trees with only pistillate flowers carried more developing fruits than those with hermaphrodite flowers: presumably the physiological state of the female trees permitted them to bear more. If these In

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results prove to be generally true, female trees should be selected by growers and plant breeders in preference to hermaphrodite ones.

It was also found that for the tropical crops akee, cashew and mango, there

were considerable differences between

authority now appreciate the importance of maintaining and expanding populations of honeybees, and other useful insects, in order to support the level of fruit, seed, fibre and vegetable oil production to which humans have become accustomed.

Later in a breeding programme it might be necessary to select especially for a high proportion of hermaphrodite or female flowers and attractiveness to honeybees. Suitable high yielding cultivars may, of course, need more

pollinators, especially if cross-pollination is necessary.

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It is satisfying for us to reflect that the findings from fundamental research on the foraging of honeybees and on colony management are applicable wherever in the world there are crops to be pollinated. However intensive and prolonged practical research in the tropics will be necessary before we are able to ensure that tropical crops are being adequately pollinated, and that pollination is not the factor limiting seed or fruit production.

To ensure better pollination

of alf trees bee

hives

should be placed evenly in the sunny locations in the orchard and protected from direct wind

hope that there will now be increasing support for pollination research and for encouraging beekeeping as an aid to crop pollination.

Whereas the feeding activities of most insects tend to diminish the amount of plant food available to their succeeding generations, the foraging of pollinating insects increases seed production and hence the amount of forage available to

their species.

More investment in research personnel and equipment is necessary to accelerate

progress. Fortunately, many persons in

different varieties of mango trees in the proportion of their hermaphrodite flowers than natural fruits and in the ratio of female to hermaphrodite flowers. In general, the larger the proportion of hermaphrodite flowers the greater the percentage of fruit set.

The early stages of any breeding

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programme based on yield would automatically select against plants that have a small proportion of hermaphrodite or female flowers and re unattractive to bees. In Kenya shew trees that yielded most also had “more pollen grains on their stigmas and so were also the most attractive to bees.

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To save bees and other insect pollinators from pesticides these should not be sprayed during the flowering period, when the bees and other insect pollinators are visiting the crop

MEGAPUGS! native bee can sometimes top the pollination prowess of European when badly outnumbered. “In our experiments using outdoor even Apis mellifera, enclosures”, says entomologist Vincent Tepedino, “sunflower leaf-cutting bees spread out evenly amongst sunflowers instead of visiting just the plants near their nesting

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boxes”.

Mr Tepedino has affectionately nicknamed the bees “megapugs” short for Megachile pugnata. They are native to southern Canada and most of the United States except the lower Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coasts. “Megapugs could be used wherever sunflowers are grown. They are charming and dutiful. Every sunflower grower should have a bunch”, says Vincent Tepedino.

Dark-coloured and about 2.5 cm long the bee forages on sunflowers and other species in the sunflower family. It uses leaf pieces and moistened soil to make partitions between the cells that house its young.

Mr Tepedino used four 30 x 6 m screened enclosures, owned by Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc, at Woodland, California, for the experiments. One kind of sunflower the megapugs produced significantly larger and heavier seeds after being pollinated by then when pollinated by Apis mellifera.

Source: Agricultural Research published by the US Department of Agriculture, September 1999

and forage intermittently on a single female flower for a long time and attack any other wasp or honeybee that alights on it. For much of the day, each female flower has the

same individual wasp on it. Honeybees

quickly retreat when threatened, although in the absence of wasps, they move readily between flowers and are valuable pollinators.

explanation please!

Pistillate plants: flowers containing only pistils (female parts).

Hermaphrodite plants: flowers that have both pistils and stamens (female and male parts).

Illustrations are taken from Pollination management of mountain crops through beekeeping, one of two new books on

pollination featured on Bookshelf page ten

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Beekeeping is a major source of local income in At Beit-AI-Fakes, northern Lebanon. The Near East Foundation (NEF) is assisting school teachers who have formed a Co-operative to produce honey as a means of supplementing their small salaries. In recent years the Co-operative has been unable to meet the Government's new and stricter processing and canning standards, and the local market for honey has been undercut by imports from neighbouring countries.

NEF is helping the Co-operative to build a honey processing and packing factory which will serve about 3000 beekeepers.

Source: Near East Foundation

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A stern warning!

Antony Kwame Essoun sent us this picture ofAmisano Beekeepers' Association's stand at the Central Expo in 1998. The Association regularly provides beekeeping advice at local events and Mr Essoun (le�) offers training courses in beekeeping at his farm.

United Kingdom The nuns from the Order of The Little Sisters of the Poor in London have found a new use for propolis.

Sister Carole gave propolis to one of her elderly patients with a recurrent chest infection against which modern antibiotics were proving useless. Within five days the infection had disappeared.

More excitingly, the same patient, who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease, started to become more alert and responsive.

Other patients with the disease responded in a similar way. There is no clinical explanation for these findings but investigation is underway.

Source: The Daily Telegraph

Ani Saduki and his brother decided to remove a bees' nest from a shed on their property in Los Angeles with the aid of a pineapple. This sounds rather an interesting idea until we say that a 'pineapple' is an illegal fire cracker with the explosive equivalent of one half stick of dynamite.

The brothers ignited the fuse and retreated to watch from inside their home, behind a window three metres away from the shed. The impact of the

explosion shattered the window inwards seriously lacerating Ani Saduki.

D eciding Mr Saduki needed stitches the brothers moved to their car to go to a nearby hospital. Whilst walking to the car Ani was stung three times by the surviving bees. Unknown to either brother Ani was allergic to bee venom and died of suffocation before he arrived at hospital.

Sent to Bees for Development

by Noe/ Bradbear

Zambia District Forestry Officer, Innocent Simasiku sent us this photograph of one of the training courses he organised for three beekeeping associations in the Mwinilunga District of Zambia in October I 998.

The picture shows members of the Kamongesha Central Women's Beekeeping Group practising transferring bees from a swarm box into a transitional hive.

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Location Suriname is in South America, North of the Amazon Delta in the Guyana Shield, with Guyana to the West, French-Guiana to the East, Brazil to the South and the Atlantic Ocean in the North. Some development organisations include Suriname within the Caribbean region.

Capital Paramaribo

Main agriculture Suriname enjoys a range of agricultural riches. The coastal lowlands provide rich soil for a variety of crops, many of ehich are export earners. Banana and - • rice contribute an important stream of ' revenue although by no means as large as the bauxite sector.

Bees There are eight species of indigenous stingless bees in Surinam. European honeybees Apis mellifera were introduced at the beginning of the 20th Century.

Beekeeping Earliest records of beekeeping date back to the 1700s when wax was being exported from Suriname.

By the 1930s beekeeping was flourishing.

99 recorded beekeepers with 3340 hives shipped honey to the Netherlands and other countries in western Europe. By the end of the I 960s little remained of this industry and honey was being imported for local consumption.

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Africanized honeybees Africanized bees arrived in 1975 and a radical reduction in beekeeping took place. In 1977 842 hives were reported.

By 1982 only 82 hives remained. In 1982 a beekeeping promotion project was launched to deal with keeping Africanized honeybees. By 1998, 60 beekeepers were keeping a total of I 500 hives.

In the 1990s lack of beekeeping supplies, sites for apiaries and low credit for beginning beekeeping kept beekeeper numbers low.

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Local annual demand for honey is 40,000-50,000 litres per year. The typical annual yield per colony is 25 kg.

Honeybee diseases, pests and predators The most destructive pest is wax moth.

Beekeeping Association Parwa Beekeepers' Association and the Women's Beekeepers' Association, Oni.

Honey harvest in Coronie

Research and Training The Division of Beekeeping within the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry is conducting practical research on the management of Africanized honeybees. The Division is also conducting extension programmes assisting practising beekeepers with their techniques.

Projects A project was launched to train women in beekeeping financed by GTZ, Germany and the NGO Wan Ati based in The Netherlands.

Beekeeping training in Suriname We are grateful to Mr Mohammed

S Khodabaks for providing this

information and photographs

Meet delegates from Suriname at the Second Caribbean Congress in Nevis (see page 12 for details)

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Flowers of Cistus laurifolius

Apicultural value

Leaves: ovate, sometime lanceolate.

Cistus laurifolius is the most important source of pollen for Apis mellifera

Flowers: white petals. Sepals not

honeybees in Turkey

Family Cistaceae

Other names Rock

cordate at base. Cistus flowers have very high pollen production.

Flowering: one period a year, from May to June.

rose

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Pollen: Tricolporatae, reticulatae

Cistus sp are indigenous to the Mediterranean area from Spain to Anatolia and northern Greece in

ornamentation. |2 flavonoid glycosides, glycones isolated and identified and rich in carbohydrate.

Europe, and North and South America.

Various species of Cistus are cultivated world-wide as ornamental garden shrubs, but they are unable to survive severe winter conditions.

Cistus seed is rich in starch granules.

Cultivated Cistus make attractive garden

Description An evergreen shrub, I-3 m tall. Their brightly coloured flowers are present in great profusion, each lasting for one day only.

Uses

plants. The aromatic resin (laudanum) produced by Cistus leaves is used in medicines.

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References DAVIS,P H (1969) Flora of Turkey Volume Or Edinburgh University Press, UK.

HEYWOCD,V H (1978) Flowering plants the world. International Projects Ltd,

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Oxford, UK.

ORTIS,P L; FERNANDEZ,|; MATIN,C M (1990) Melitopalynological study of the area of Aracena (Huelva). Lagascalia 16 (1): 61-76.

ORTIS,P L; POLO,|

M (1992) Pollen collected by Apis mellifera L. during one day.

Boletim da Sociadate Brote riana 65: 2, 43-60.

ORTIS,P L (1994) The Cistaceae as food resources for honeybees in South West Spain. Journal of Apicultural Research 33: 3, 136-144.

TOMAS,L F; GARCIA,G M M; NIETO, L; TOMAS,B F (1992) Flavonoids from Cistus ladanifer bee pollen. Phytochemistry 31 (6):

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The Asian Apicultu Ass established in 1992 to encourage friendly exchange of information between beekeepers and bee scientists in Asia. The administrative headquarters of AAA are in Japan. Many countries have local Representatives or Chapters. |

Membership of AAA costs US$20 per year.

You can join AAA by contacting your local Representative.

People in other countries should send payment directly to the AAA Office, Honeybee Science Research Center, Tamagawa University, Machida-Shi, Tokyo 194 8610, fapan.

Fax (+81) 427 398 854 Email HSRC@agr.tamagawa.ac.jp

AUSTRALIA

CHINA

INDONESIA

Mr Linton Briggs, The Federal Council of Australian Apiarists Association, PMB 1030, Glen Rowan,Victoria 3675

Professor Zhang Fu-Xing, Apicultural Science Association of China, Xiangshan, Beijing E-mail f.x.zhang@263.net

Dr M Chandra Widjaja, National Beekeeping Center, Perum Perhutani, Jl Gatot Subroto-Senayan, PO Box 19/KT WB, Jakarta 10270

INDIA

ISRAEL

Central Bee Research Institute, Khadi & Village Industries Commission,

Prof Yaacov Lensky, The Triwaks Bee Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, PO Box !2, Rehovot 76100

BANGLADESH Dr Alamgir Mati, Bangladesh Apicultural Association, 30/1 Shantinagar, Dhaka 1217 Bangladesh Institute of Apiculture, 23/12 Khilji Road, Shyamoli, Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1207

BRUNEI Dr Kassim Hajidaud,

Department of Biology, University Brunei Darrussalam, Gadong 3186

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K Mattu, Department of Bio-Sciences, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla 171 005 E-mail H.PUNIVERSITY@X400nicgw.nic.in Prof C C Reddy, Department of Zoology, Bangalore University, Jnaha Bharati, Bangalore 560 056

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E-mail lensky@agri.huji.ac.il

KOREA Prof Kun-Suk Woo, Institute of Korea Beekeeping Science, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University, Suwon 440 744 E-mail wooks@plaza.snu.ac.kr

Fifth AAA/7th IBRA Conference Tropical Bees: Management and Diversity 19-25 March 2000, Chiang Mai Further details from: AAA, Honeybee Science

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ARGENTINA

Expo-Apicola San Fransisco 2000

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5-7 May 2000, San Fransisco Further details from: Espacio Apicola Punilla 1784, 5006 Cordoba, Argentina E-mail expo2000@apicultura.com.ar

Research Center, Tamagawa University, Machida Shi, Tokyo 194-8610, Japan Fax (+81) 427 39 8854 E-mail hsrc@agr.tamagawa.ac.jp

HUNGARY

UNITED KINGDOM

8th International Symposium on Pollination

British Beekeepers’ Association, Millennium Convention

10-14 July 2000, Mosonmayarovar Further details from: Professor P Benedek,

E-mail bbka@bbka.demon.co.uk

NEVIS

USA Second International Congress on Africanized Honey Bees and Bee Mites

14-18 August 2000, Four Seasons Resort Further details from: Congress Secretariat, Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Housing & Co-operatives, Main Street, Charlestown (+1) 869 469 1698

10-12 April 2000, Tucson Further details from: Eric Erickson, Carl Hayden Bee Research Center,

2000 East Allen Road, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA

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Apicultural Congress 24-29 August 2000, Ljubljana Further details from: Cebelarska Zverza Slovenije, Cankarjeva 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia E-mail cebelarska.zveza.slo@siolnet

30 January-13 February 2000, Karnataka State Further details from: Bees for Development at the address below left.

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My name is Samuel U Onyemaechi and live in Nigeria.| am looking for a

sponsor to help me with my attendance on the Beekeeping for Rural Development Course in 2000. am happy to negotiate some work in exchange for support.

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PARTNER WANTED Alexandru Popescu is a Romanian beekeeper with honey and other bee

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1-7 September 2001, Durban Further details from: Apimondia 2001,

To Brother Anthony Addai of Ghana, winner of the IFS/Danida Award for his research work on stingless bees.

Anthony is a Fransiscan Brother working at St Anthony of Padua Friary in Sunyani, Ghana. In a citation, the Board of Trustees of IFS described Brother Addai’s work as “‘being very useful and providing clear applications for improvement in the environment as well as for the family economy of people in rural communities”.

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MALAYSIA Dr

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PAKISTAN

Plant Protection Department, Agricultural University of Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor E-mail mohd@agri.upm.edu.my

Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, PO NIH, Islamabad

NEPAL

Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, UP Los Banos, College, Laguna

Dr Uma Partap, ICIMOD, PO Box 3226, Kathmandu E-mail uma@icimod.org.np

NEW ZEALAND Mr Cliff van Eaton, National Apiculture Business Unit, MAF Quality Management, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, Private Bag, Tauranga E-mail cliff@comvita.com

OMAN Mr Keith E Ferguson, PO Box 2037, SEEB III

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Dr Chun-Yen Lin,

Honeybee Research Facility, Horticulture Station, Ministry of Agriculture, Kananwila, Horana

Taiwan Apicultural & Sericultural Experiment Station, 261 Kuan-nan, Kung-Kuan, Miaoli

THAILAND Mr Somnuk Boongird, Agricultural Technology, Faculty of Science, Rankham Haeng University, Rankham Haeng Road, Bangkok 10240

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Department of Animal Science, Cukurova University, Adana 01330 E-mail kaftan@pamuk.cc.cu.edu.tr

VIETNAM Mr Dinh Quyet Tam, Vietnam Beekeepers’ Association, Langha, Dongda, Hanoi E-mail qtam@netnam.org.vn

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The book examines how humans have exploited bees from prehistoric times until today. Archaeology has revealed information about bee hives used in Ancient Crete, Greece and Egypt, and by Maya people keeping stingless bees in Mesoamerica. From this evidence Eva Crane has worked out routes by which such methodologies may have spread from one region to another. The text is accompanied by hundreds of interesting illustrations and diagrams, showing beekeeping from past ages and explaining different types of technology.

The book has 54 chapters arranged in ten sections. The sections cover: Setting the scene (bees and how they are exploited); Opportunistic honey hunting by humans; History of collecting honey from owned or tended nests; Honeybees that nest in the open; Tending and beekeeping; History of traditional beekeeping using fixed comb hives; History of practices in both traditional and movable-frame beekeeping; Development of beekeeping using more advanced hives; Development of beekeeping using movable-frame hives; History of bee products; and Bees in the human mind.

The vast amount of information within these chapters is also made accessible through indices of personal names, of peoples, a geographical index and a subject index. 1990 saw the publication of Dr Crane’s earlier work, “Bees and beekeeping: science, practice and world resources” describing the current status of apicu Iture. in combination with this new work, Eva Crane has managed to produce in book format a remarkable summary of the world’s apicultural knowledge.

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Beekeeping in Botswana Khaliso Kepaletswe 1997 (4th edition) - 76 pages.

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An updated edition of this popular text that gives excellent advice on how to work with African bees. It advocates top-bar hives as the most practical hive for beekeeping in Botswana, and gives two designs.

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