"Bees: Biology and Management"  by Peter Kevan at the University of Guelph

Reflects the increasing need for apiculturalists to understand bee
biology to better manage bees for honey production, pollination, and
for science. Apiculture has changed greatly over the past 170 years,
so this book is not only about "How to keep bees" but why bees are
kept, what it is about them that makes them amenable to management and
domestication: their anatomy, physiology, behaviour, diversity,
ecology, and value to science, agriculture and the natural world. The
main base of the information presented in this book comes from the
European races of the Western honeybee, Apis mellifera, but other bees
are far from forgotten.

The book was written to answer the needs of teaching apiculture at the
University of Guelph.  The bite-sized shortness of most of the
chapters allows readers to learn in short bursts, chapter by chapter,
or by longer sessions of several chapters at a time.  There are
numerous cross-references between chapters and illustrations to allow
readers to understand and appreciate how different aspects of bee
biology and management are inter-linked.

The book can be obtained through www.volumesdirect.com at a cost of $48.70.

-- 
Peter L Borst
Danby, NY USA
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http://picasaweb.google.com/peterlborst

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