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The MAPPS (Marketing Assistance & Product Promotion) guide to keeping bees in Somalia
Bees and crop pollination crisis, crossroads, conservation
Progressive Interventions
edited by Constance S Stubbs and Francis
2001 63 pages Paperback Available from Bees for Development price on application Order code P210
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PROCEEDINGS Bees and Crop Pollination-
This richly illustrated spiral bound notebook is written to assist existing
Crisis, Crossroads, Conservation
beekeepers to improve and expand production and encourage new
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Entomological Society of America, Thomas Say Publications, Lanham, MD, USA.
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With fully 70% of the 1000 major cultivated worldwide crops insect pollinated, the physical/chemical fragmentation of habitats has
English and Somali editions, the manual will be of use to any group working with beekeepers in East Africa. Sections included are: basics of bee biology; getting started (local hives are
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2001 156 pages Paperback Available from
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beekeepers. Although written for Somali beekeepers and beekeeping groups (with their input) and available in both guide to keeping bees in Somalia
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accelerated a crisis in decline of
abundance and species richness of bees and other pollinators. Diseases, mites, insecticide poisoning, Africanisation in the Americas and economic instability of honey markets have specifically
promoted and information on top-bar hives is included), the beekeeping year; honey harvesting; marketing of bee products; and two especially useful sections - starting a beekeeping
threatened honeybees, the most important insect of planned pollination situations. Beyond describing the crises, this paperback, a result of an
enterprise, and advice for promoting beekeeping in developing countries (Somalia included). The text is non-technical and very readable with good illustrations (a cartoon bee helps break up text to provide each page with
Entomological Society of America Symposium, seeks to describe the crossroads we need for a more sustainable approach towards crop pollination and issues of conservation of bee species to ensure plant
an attractive appearance) and basic common-sense recommendations.
biodiversity preservation.
Workshop on alternative techniques in queen and hive production for Apis cerana indica
Chapters are by Peter Kevan (University of Guelph, Canada) on ecosystem health for pollinators, Bernd Heinrich and Gabriela Chavarria (University of Vermont) on bumblebees, Suzanne T Batra (retired from USDA, Beltsville) on pollen bees, the editors (University of Maine) on mason bees and vitality
Paini Hills Conservation Council Workshup un alternetive teubalyies io queen and hive production for cerane Indica Proceedings of aa in!eroational workshop at Shenbagasar - 18th to 22nd February - 2900
2000 47 pages Paperback Available from Bees for Development
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Order code P110
in February 2000 was co-sponsored by the Palni Hills Conservation Council and The Danish
The Workshop
Beekeeping Federation. These Proceedings include nine of the presentations. Very useful are sections on the Jensen method of queen rearing (as described in B&D 55) and the Mulderry hive
Apis cerana) both by Danish beekeeper Mogens Jensen, information on Palni Hills and Apis cerana beekeeping, (Gor
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and Bees and Biodiversity by Pandurang Hegde of Karnataka, India. There are colour photographs of queen rearing and Mulderry hive making.
of the Maine lowbush blueberry ecosystem and Dewey M Caron (University of Delaware) on Africanisation of the Neotropics. An appendix to this last
chapter summarises pollination requirements of important tropical crops of the Americas building on the FAO Bulletin #118, Pollination of cultivated plants in the tropics (edited by David Roubik) reviewed in B&D 38 and
available from Bees for Development price 24.10
(code R510).
Pollination with mason bees: a gardener’s guide to managing mason bees for fruit production Margriet Dogterom
Pollination with
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2002 80 pages Paperback Available from Bees for Development Order code D125 price 13 As described above, we may anticipate that other species of bees will be increasingly utilised for pollination purposes.
This new book describes the mason bees
Some honeybee plants of Bas-Congo Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
widespread in North America, Osmia lignaria. How to identify them, create several different types of nesting
Paul Latham Paul Latham has revised his book Beekeeping in Bas Congo into this new title that includes more species of piants found throughout the humid tropical regions of Africa. There are colour photographs on almost all of
places for them (drilled wood, cardboard straws, paper straws etc), nest placement, storing cocoons over the
the 100 pages.
winter, and every other aspect of caring for and encouraging populations of
Availabie from Bees for Development Order code L115 price 48.40
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mason bees in your garden.
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