QUEEN REARING ESSENTIALS
Written by Lawrence John Connor
Published by Wicwas Press
in 2009
ISBN: 9781878075239
- Categorised in:
- COUNTRYSIDE
- BEE KEEPING
- BEES
- NATURAL HISTORY
QUEEN REARING ESSENTIALS
Written by Lawrence John Connor.
Stock no. 1324007
1st.
2009.
Softcover.
Slightly better than very good condition.
A must have book for every beekeeper. Pictorial cardwraps. 100 pages. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 9781878075239. Light rubbing to cover edges. Contents fine. Neat barcode label to rear cover.
Front cover
Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- I - QUEEN & COLONY EVALUATION
- GENETICS AND REARING CONDITIONS
- THE QUEEN AND HER COLONY
- BROOD MEASUREMENT
- DETERMINE THE EGG-LAYING RATE
- ESTIMATING BROOD AREA
- OTHER CRITERIA FOR QUEEN AND COLONY EVALUATION
- II - QUEEN MARKING & CLIPPING
- INTERNATIONAL QUEEN MARKING COLOR CODE
- III - BIOLOGY OF CELL PRODUCTION
- IV - CELL STARTING
- A SIMPLE STARTER COLONY
- THE SETUP PROCESS
- AFTER THE GRAFT
- V - MAKING QUEEN CELLS
- TRANSFERRING LARVAE (GRAFTING)
- VI - CELL DEVELOPMENT
- VII - CELL FINISHING
- THE CELL FINISHER
- CELL CAGING & HANDLING
- VIII - DRONE PRODUCTION
- IX - NUCLEUS PRODUCTION / CELLS
- MAKING UP MATING NUCLEI
- MATING NUCLEI MANAGEMENT
- X - EVALUATING NEW QUEEN
- XI CELLS AND QUEENS ONLY
- A LARGE-SCALE QUEEN OPERATION
- BACKGROUND
- USING A QUEENLESS CELL BUILDER
- GRAFTING STOCK-BREEDER MANAGEMENT
- DIPPED QUEEN CELLS
- GRAFTING SYSTEM
- CELL HANDLING
- PORTABLE INCUBATOR
- LEARN BY EXAMPLE
- INDEX
- APPRECIATION