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Apiculture and the Products of the Hive Business $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic discusses the essentials of apiary site selection, understanding honey and honey bees, advantages of beekeeping as an income generation activity, different techniques to start a beekeeping business, local and global honey market outlook, various products of the hive, and estimating the potential profit per hive.
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Beekeeping Equipment and Bee Handling Safety $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic covers the essential beekeeping equipment and protective clothing, handling bees, opening the hive and managing bee stings, lifting hives and heavy equipment, honey harvesting procedures, and the effect of smoke on bees.
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Bees the Friends of the Earth, Biodiversity People and Planet $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic describes the importance of bees as super pollinators in agriculture, timing and moving bee hives, importance of bees to the environment, bees for sustainable development, effects of human activities on bees, and the effect of pesticides on bees
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Honey Bee Threats, Diseases and Pests Management $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic covers major threats to honey bees, honey bee parasites, diseases, pests and predators, climate change, pollution, and pesticides.
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Honey Harvesting, Processing and Honey Products $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic covers honey and beeswax harvesting, types of harvested honey, honey extraction tools and procedures, honey processing process, methods of honey processing, honey filtration, moisture reduction in honey, honey storage, and moisture control, yeast and fermentation crystallization of honey, important bees products and description of their use.
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Introduction to Apiculture $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic discusses the importance of beekeeping, understanding the workings of the beehive, common types of bees, the social organization of honey bees, raising queen bees and mating of virgin queen bees, the appreciation of bees as alchemists in honey making, and various bee products.
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Organic Honey Production $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic describes the characteristics of organic honey and the qualities that differentiate organic honey from regular conventional honey. The topic also discusses the difference between raw, pure, and unfiltered honey as well as organic honey harvesting recordkeeping and standards as they apply to honey production.
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Selecting the Right Type of Beehive $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic describes by merit and demerit the various types of bee hives, how to choose the right type of beehive from available choices such as; langstroth-style hive, top-bar hive, warre hive, hex hive, Kenya top bar hive and dome hive. The topic also breakdowns the components of a modern beehive and essentials of bee hive maintenance.
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The Roles of Bees in Sustainable Food Production $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic explores the role played by bees as pollinators and the direct link pollination has to food production, increase in yields, and how bees gave rise to a lucrative honey industry. The topic also discusses the existential threat to bees and the declining bee population in the world.
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Understanding Bee Biology and Behavior $ 1.49Add to cart
This topic describes the bees as superorganisms and covers key aspects such as honey bee colony castes, colony development, temporal polyethism and sharing of duties, the sequence of duties of worker bees, bee rood, and life cycle, solitary and social bees, bee anatomy and body parts, bee swarming and communication, collection of nectar and conversion of nectar into honey and queen bee replacement.
