In Issue 145

Issue 145 January 2023

Editorials

John Phipps and Nicola Bradbear

Articles

Nature-based Beekeeping - issues arising BfD

Janet Lowore, Bees for Development

The Scientist and the Beekeeper; The Tale of Varroa-resistance in Norway, Part One

Dr Melissa Oddie, Norway

Stories from Under The Mango Tree Society, India

Debika Chatterjee, Senior Programme Manager, India

Ensuring women benefit from bees BfD

Isaac Mbroh, Apiculture Development Coordinator, Bees for Development Ghana

Beekeeping with Stingless Bees in Vietnam BfD

Nguyen Huu Truc and Nguyen Quang Tan, Jichi Stingless Bee Farm, Vietnam

Diversity in Honey Bees BfD

Jonathan Vincent, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Swarms Are Precious: Why Not Try a Bait Hive and See What Happens?

Ron Brown, MBE

Waiting for the Bees

Simon Ferris, UK

Aspects of Traditional Beekeeping, Yesterday and Today, Lithuania

Simona Vatinaite, Lithuania

Looking Back: The Catenary Hive

Bill Bielby, UK, and John Phipps, Greece

A Scientific Note on the Strategy of Wax Collection as Rare Behaviour of Apis mellifera

Krzysztof Olszewski, Piotr Dziechciarz, Mariusz TryTek, and Grzegorz Borsuk, Poland

Book reviews

Honey Bees

Ingo Arndt and Jurgen Tautz

A Guide to the Safe Removal of Honey Bee Colonies from Buildings

Clive A Stewart and Stuart A Roberts

Beekeeping Simplified with the Drayton Hive

Andrew Bax

Manual de buenas prácticas en alimentación de abejas (Manual of Good Practices In Bee Feeding)

Cecilia B Dini and Noberto Garcia

News, events and courses BfD

Bees for Development

NBH ⬢

Natural Bee Husbandry magazine

A special issue incorporating Bees for Development Journal No. 145

John & Val Phipps, Editor & Sub Editor

Martin Kunz, Assistant Editor

The Bees for Development Team

Nicola Bradbear

Helen Jackson

Janet Lowore

Editor: John Phipps - editor@naturalbee.buzz Neochori, Agios Nikolaos, Messinias, 24022

Sub Editor: Val Phipps

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