Offers an insightful and intelligent exploration of modern beekeeping practices, and how they can be improved for a more sustainable and bee-friendly approach.

The Bee-friendly Beekeeper

Science & Math

Heaf, David

Biological Sciences

Northern Bee Books

Title: Natural Beekeeping with the Warre Hive Binding: Paperback Author: DavidHeaf Publisher: NorthernBeeBooks

Natural Beekeeping With the Warre Hive: A Manual

Lightning Source, Inc.

David Heaf 
Peacock Press 
09/23/2020 
106 
Binding Hardcover 
0.82lbs 
9.61h x 6.69w x 0.31d 
9781912271726\nThis title is not returnable

Natural Beekeeping with the Warre Hive

Peacock Press

Since varroa arrived in Europe and America in the 1980s, most beekeepers have found it necessary to treat their colonies with chemicals in order to avoid heavy colony losses. But a minority of beekeepers have managed to care for their colonies without the use of chemicals and have done so with not just tolerable colony losses, but with losses that are sometimes equal to or smaller than the losses of those beekeepers who treat with chemicals. 
With the help of thirty examples of treatment-free beekeepers in Europe and America, including famous names in varroa-resistant bee breeding, this book documents the encouraging success and growing popularity of beekeeping without chemicals, and details the bee husbandries of the beekeepers presented.

Treatment Free Beekeeping

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Ibra & Nbb

Horizontal hives with frames are becoming increasingly popular in Europe and North America.One of these is the golden hive or Einraumbeute, developed at Mellifera Association in Germany, based on Dadant-size frames rotated ninety degrees. The resulting deep format allows for a vertically uninterrupted brood nest and a deep honey crown that is good for wintering. This book describes modifications to the golden hive to buffer the colony against heat/cold extremes as does a tree cavity. With the help of many pictures, details are given of how to make the hive, followed by highlights of running it untreated for varroa over six seasons. A few other modified golden hive projects are also mentioned. 
About the author 
After retiring from research biochemistry to north-west Wales, David Heaf took up hobby beekeeping in 2003. He runs about 10 colonies in Warré hives and several in other hive types. In 2010, Northern Bee Books published his book The Bee Friendly Beekeeper and again invited him to write two other books, Natural Beekeeping with the Warré Hive - A Manual and Treatment-Free Beekeeping, (IBRA & NBB) which they published in 2013 and 2021 respectively.

The Modified Golden Hive (Einraumbeute)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies