Observation Hive Handbook (eBook)

Studying Honey Bees at Home

Frank Linton (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
110 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-1221-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Linton, a certified master beekeeper, discusses the various options for constructing an observation hive.... This book is written primarily for experienced beekeepers, offering sound advice for those wishing to set up an observation hive.... Very well-written.a*Choice This book will guide you in selecting an observation hive and choosing a site for it, modifying the hive and the site as needed, installing the hive, working with the hive, and maintaining the hive. It will prepare you to take a temporary portable observation hive to a market, fair, or school. Most important, it describes and illustrates the many ways you can use your observation hive to learn more about honey bees and how to care for them.

Autor

Frank Linton is an EAS-certified Master Beekeeper who has kept an observation hive in his house since 2005. Retired from his career as an artificial intelligence engineer, he lives in Maryland. Clarence Collison is Professor of Entomology and Head of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Mississippi State University. He is the author of What Do You Know?

Inhalt

Foreword, by Clarence H. Collison
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Benefits of Observing Honey Bees at Home
2. Preparing for and Selecting an Observation Hive
3. Installing Your Observation Hive
4. Working an Observation Hive
5. Maintaining Your Observation Hive
6. Observation Hives in Public Spaces
7. Bee Photography and Your Observation Hive
8. Things to Try with Your Observation Hive
A Closing Word
Appendix: Selection and Installation Checklist
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2017
• Vorwort: Clarence H. Collison
• Zusatzinfo: 94 color halftones, 2 line drawings
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: apian studies • apiary • apicultural • apiculture • arthropods • bee anatomy • bee behavior • Bee communication • bee conservation • Bee diseases • Bee diversity • bee hives • beehives • beekeeper • Beekeeping • beekeeping equipment • beekeeping industry • Beekeeping practices • Bugs • Butterflies • Colony Collapse Disorder • Floral fidelity • Foraging patterns • Handbook • Hobbies • honeybee biology • Honey Bees • Insects • keeping bees • observation hive • observation hive, honey bees, handbook, studying, bee behavior, beekeeper, apicultural • pollen analysis • pollination ecology • Studying
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-1221-7 / 1501712217
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1221-0 / 9781501712210