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Raising Honeybee Queens by Gilles Fert
L£4,473,000.00
Raising Honeybee Queens
L£4,473,000.00
“Raising Honeybee Queens is a most wonderful resource that has helped countless beekeepers raise their own bees and become self-sufficient. Translated into a dozen languages, it is probably the best queen-rearing guide in the world.”
– Dr. Nicola Bradbear (Director, Bees for Development)
Raise your own superior queens and you’ll never need to buy bees again! This fully illustrated guide makes self-sufficient beekeeping accessible to everyone:
- Detailed, easy to understand practical advice
- Simple, time-tested techniques
- All hive models: vertical and horizontal
- Many methods to choose from
- Every step clearly explained
- Successful breeding, mating, and queen introduction
- Multiply your colonies & overwinter them in any climate
- Rear only a few queens … or a thousand
- Natural, chemical-free options
- Make bee packages for yourself and for sale
- Produce royal jelly
- Over 150 full-colour photographs, drawings, and diagrams
- Concise, well-organised guide
If you never raised queens, this book will give you confidence to start and succeed. If you are an experienced queen breeder, you will find a slew of tips to make each step of the process even better.
The author, Gilles Fert, is a professional beekeeper and queen breeder with over 30 years experience. He has taught queen rearing all over the world and served as a consultant for numerous conservation projects on six continents.
This marvelous guide has been published in a dozen languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Italian, and more. Learn why beekeepers from around the world trust Gilles Fert’s methods to raise outstanding queens and multiply their thriving colonies.
Kirk Webster’s afterword is icing on the cake: learn keys to sustainable and profitable beekeeping from this legendary commercial treatment-free beekeeper.
Raising Honeybee Queens walks you step-by-step through every procedure, explaining everything in such a way that you’ll easily grasp every detail. Your beekeeping will never be the same after reading this book.
VIEW Contents
- Preface by Henri Clement
- Foreword by Gilles Fert
- Queens and Bee Races
- The queen
- Drones
- Natural reproduction
- Bee races
- Getting Colonies Ready
- Selecting breeder colonies
- Hygienic bees
- Keeping breeder queens
- Preparing & feeding cell builders
- Treating against Varroa
- Syrup feeding
- Bee bread, pollen, protein
- Raising a Few Queens
- Choosing the right method
- Raising fewer than 20 queens
- De-queening
- Bentley method
- Horizontal hives
- Raising 20-200 queens
- Miller method
- Alley method
- Grafting (Doolitle Method)
- Basic equipment
- Cups
- Cell bar frames
- Grafting tool
- Prepare cups and larvae
- Grafting
- Alternatives to grafting
- Cell punch
- The Nicot system
- Starters
- Closed starters
- The swarm box
- Open starters
- Finishers
- Horizontal finisher
- Double horizontal finisher
- Vertical finisher
- The Cloake starter/finisher
- Horizontal starter/finisher
- Cell incubators
- Candling
- Basic equipment
- Controlled Mating
- Mating biology
- Drone congregation areas
- Drone rearing
- Mating yards
- Isolation and selection
- Preventing drift
- Robbing
- Mating nuc models
- Mini-nucs
- Five-frame nucs
- Queen castles
- Mating nuc management
- Stocking
- Feeding
- Strengthening
- Moving and distributing cells
- The two-queen system
- Mating biology
- Evaluating and Handling Mated Queens
- Finding the queen
- Using a queen excluder
- Quality control
- Marking queens
- Paint or labels
- Colour coding
- Clipping
- Shipping queens
- Shipping cages
- Selling queens
- Finding the queen
- Queen Introduction and Banking
- Colony development
- Successful queen introduction
- Queen cell introduction
- Virgin queen introduction
- Mated queen introduction
- Introducing valuable queens
- Re-queening a drone-laying hive
- Storing queens in queen banks
- Banks with brood
- Broodless banks
- Storing virgin queens
- Storing mated queens in cages
- Producing Packaging Bees
- Package bees
- Equipment
- Shaker box
- Preparing colonies
- The collection procedure
- Bees destined for nucs
- Bees meant for sale
- Shipping
- Care upon delivery
- Hiving package bees
- Producing Royal Jelly
- Equipment
- Feeding
- The bees
- The production method
- The harvest
- Spoons and pumps
- Filtration
- Packing and storage
- Starting a new batch of cups
- The final product
- Queen Rearing Calendar
- Success Story: Local Queens by Kirk Webster
- Glossary
- Index
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