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Eva Crane 1999 - 720 pages. Hardback. Available from Bees for Development price 90.00 including postage ~ &, A marvellous new book from
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Available from Bees for Development price 15.00 including postage
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. While this new text
is the most expensive
book we sell, in terms of information per page
it represents excellent value!
Beekeeping in Botswana Khaliso Kepaletswe 1997 (4th edition) - 76 pages.
Available from Bees for Development price 10.00 including postage
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. The new edition also the dimensions for incorporates Langstroth (frame) hives, and gives methods for honey and beeswax harvesting,
BEEKEEPING IN
BOTSWANA
processing and packing.
Editor’s note
interested in some visual accompaniment to this new title? The ever-popular video “African honeybees: how to handle them in top-bar hives” with a script by Bernhard Clauss is still available from Bees for Development price 25. Bernhaid worked for many years in Botswana with Khaliso and her team.
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