Description
Title: Australian Native Bee Book, The: Keeping Stingless Bee Hives for Pets, Pollination & Honey
Author: HEARD TIM
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/02/2016
Imprint: SUGARBAG BEES
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
This complete guide to native stingless bees is written by Australia’s foremost expert. Keeping native stingless bees is a hot topic in Australia for commercial, environmental and recreational reasons. This comprehensive guide covers bee biology, behaviour, nesting, social life and foraging; how to build a native bee hive; how to transfer a bee colony to a hive box and propagate hives; all about sugarbag honey, including how to extract it from hives, hive management; identifying and dealing with pests; using stingless bees for pollination. It also includes a complete list of Australia’s stingless bee species; how to identify them, their characteristics, where they occur, and recommended hives. A readable summary of the latest research on native bees. Richly illustrated with over 500 photographs, drawings and charts to aid your learning. 246 pages.
ISBN: 9780646939971
Edition: 01