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How to Keep Bees Without Finding the Queen by Paul Mann
$27.00
How to Keep Bees Without Finding the Queen
$27.00
Most beekeepers have trouble finding the queen in a colony of honey bees, at best it is time consuming. This book approaches beekeeping without even looking for the queen. The author hopes it will help beekeepers to enjoy their activities even more.
This is an account by an experienced beekeepers of his system of management, developed over years, which makes the keeping of bees & the control of swarming easier.
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- Me and my beekeeping
- The queen, an amazing creature
- Actually finding the queen
- Queen excluders and includers
- Swarming
- Artificial swarming by the Pagden method
- Actually making a ‘shook swarm’
- The ‘shook swarm’ and disease
- Extended possibilities
- Colony production and queen replacement
- Queen rearing
- Keeping bees inside
- Mini-nucs to make
- The future
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Reviewed by John Phipps The Beekeepers Quarterly December 2009
A colleague at school once bought some bees from me; an intelligent man, ex-RAF (though on a practice mission he bombed the wrong target by mistake) and a good mathematician. However, for the several years that he kept bees, he never once saw the queen. Indeed, he was so incensed by his inability to do so, he vehemently believed that the whole queen thing was a myth.
Sometimes I, and no doubt many others, know exactly how frustrating it is when we want to find a queen but no matter how many times we go through the hive (or even a nucleus for that matter) we fail to spot her. Fortunately, we do not always need to find a queen during an inspection - the well known signs of her presence tell us that the colony is queenright - but during some of the swarm prevention techniques their success depends on our ability to find her.
In his little book, which to some extent is part biographical and part manual, Paul Mann gives advice to beekeepers who have a problem with finding queens, suggesting practical ways of how to find her, or how to use beekeeping methods, particularly the shook swarm system, for effective swarm control when she cannot be found.
Additionally, Paul gives advice and construction notes for both a bee house and a mininuc, which DIY beekeepers will find of great interest.
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