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Beekeeping : A Compressive Guide to Bees and Beekeeping

Dharam P. Abrol

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This book shall serve as a reference book for students, teachers, and researchers and for all those interested in bees and beekeeping. This book will be useful to all those who wish to make beekeeping their hobby or as profession, entrepreneurs and even layman. Besides, the information provided in this book will be useful to pollination biologists, students, teachers, scientists of agriculture, animal behaviour, botany, conservation, biology, ecology, entomology, environmental biology, forestry, genetics, plant breeding, horticulture, toxicology, zoology, seed growers and seed agencies. It will be highly useful to motivate the young generation to fascinating world of honeybees and adopt beekeeping as a profession. Book as a guide for their problems evolving strategies.

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Introduction

2. History and importance of beekeeping

3. Type of bees

4. Evolution and biodiversity of honeybees

5. Diversity of honeybee species

6. Biology of the honeybee

7. Form and function of the honeybee

8. Beginning beekeeping and establishment of apiary

9. Beekeeping equipments

10. Bee behaviour, learning and communication

11. Bee pasturage

12. Management of honeybee colonies

13. Migratory beekeeping - prospects and problems

14. Honey bee nutrition and supplemental feeding

15. Two queen colony system for high-honey yields and pollination

16. Honeybee breeding, mass rearing of queens and artificial insemination

17. The use of honeybees bees for pollination

18. Management of wild bees for pollination

19. Bee products

20. Value added products from bees and beekeeping

21. Diseases and enemies of honey bees

22. Breeding bees for disease resistance

23. Impact of inbreeding depression in honeybees

24. Quarantine control of honeybee diseases

25. Pesticidal toxicity to bees

26. Biotechnological potential of honeybees

27. Honeybees as bioindicators of ecosystem health

28. Beekeeping and subsidary industries

29. Handling, processing, storage and marketing honey

30. Genetically modified crops and beekeeping

31. Diagnosis of honey bee diseases

32. Conclusions

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